Abstract: A turbine includes a turbine wheel, a housing having a flow path for a gas, a variable geometry device to guide the gas from the flow path to the turbine wheel, and a biasing member. The variable geometry device includes one or more nozzle vane member, each having a nozzle vane, a nozzle shaft and a nozzle link plate. The biasing member is in contact with the nozzle link plate of the nozzle vane member, to urge the nozzle vane member against a contact surface of the turbine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a technique of preventing idling rotation of a submersible pump used for delivering liquefied gas, such as liquefied ammonia, liquid hydrogen, liquid nitrogen, liquefied natural gas, liquefied ethylene gas, or liquefied petroleum gas. A fluid-path switching apparatus (5) includes: a flow-passage structure (45) having a first flow passage (41), a second flow passage (42), and a third flow passage (43); and a valve element (47) for allowing the third flow passage (43) to selectively communicate with the first flow passage (41) or the second flow passage (42). The first flow passage (41) communicates with a discharge outlet (1b) of the submersible pump (1), the second flow passage (42) communicates with an interior of the suction vessel (2), and the third flow passage (43) communicates with a discharge port (8) of the suction vessel (2).

Abstract: A map generation apparatus generating a map for use in acquiring a position of a subject vehicle. The map generation apparatus includes: an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle in traveling; a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: extracting one or more feature points from a detection data acquired by the in-vehicle detection unit; generating a map with the feature points extracted from the detection data in the extracting; recognizing a landmark on the map generated in the generating; determining an importance of the landmark recognized in the recognizing; and correcting a number of the feature points included in the map generated in the generating, based on the importance determined in the determining.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to obtain a fabric having superior water absorbency and sweat absorption/rapid drying while having anti-pilling qualities and a cotton-like texture. A woven/knitted article and a textile product material with good aesthetic properties and functionality, and good general physical properties are obtained which have anti-pilling qualities not obtained in conventional fabrics having a high synthetic fiber blend ratio, and functionality such as water absorbency, water absorption/rapid drying, and quick drying after laundering, which cannot be obtained in conventional cotton fabrics. The present invention is a woven/knitted article comprising one or more fibers selected from synthetic fibers, regenerated fibers, and semisynthetic fibers, the woven/knitted article including a spun yarn, which contains mass % or more of an aliphatic polyamide short fiber A having a single-fiber fineness of 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing the radiolabeled aryl compound (I) Ar—X, or a salt thereof, wherein X is 211At, 210At, 123I, 124I, 125I, or 131I. The method involves reacting the aryl boronic acid compound (II) Ar—Y, or a salt thereof, wherein Y is a borono group (—B(OH)2) or an ester group thereof, with a radionuclide selected from 211At, 210At, 123I, 124I, 125I and 131I, in the presence of an oxidizing agent selected from an alkali metal iodide, an alkali metal bromide, N-bromosuccinimide, N-chlorosuccinimide and hydrogen peroxide, in water.

Abstract: A map reliability determination apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: acquiring a traveling trajectory of a predetermined section on which a subject vehicle has traveled; recognizing, based on a map information around the subject vehicle, a pair of left and right lane boundary lines which defines a lane on which the subject vehicle has traveled in the predetermined section; calculating a deviation amount between the traveling trajectory acquired in the acquiring and the pair of left and right lane boundary lines recognized in the recognizing; determining a reliability of the pair of left and right lane boundary lines recognized in the recognizing based on the deviation amount calculated in the calculating; and outputting the reliability information including a determination result of the reliability in the determining.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing the radiolabeled aryl compound (I) Ar—X, or a salt thereof, wherein X is 211At, 210At, 123I, 124I, 125I, or 131I. The method involves reacting the aryl boronic acid compound (II) Ar—Y, or a salt thereof, wherein Y is a borono group (—B(OH)2) or an ester group thereof, with a radionuclide selected from 211At, 210At, 123I, 124I, 125I and 131I, in the presence of an oxidizing agent selected from an alkali metal iodide, an alkali metal bromide, N-bromosuccinimide, N-chlorosuccinimide and hydrogen peroxide, in water.

Abstract: A map information generation apparatus including a detection device detecting an external situation around a subject vehicle and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform recognizing a landmark around the subject vehicle, based on an information on the external situation detected by the detection device in a first time zone, and determining whether the landmark recognized in the first time zone is recognized in a second time zone different from the first time zone, based on the information on the external situation detected by the detection device in the second time zone. The memory is configured to store the information on the landmark recognized in the first time zone, in accordance with a determination result of whether the landmark recognized in the first time zone is recognized in the second time zone.

Abstract: A vehicle position estimation apparatus including a detection device that detects an external situation around a subject vehicle, and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The memory is configured to store a map information including an information on a landmark, and the microprocessor is configured to perform recognizing the landmark around the subject vehicle, based on an information on the external situation detected by the detection device, determining whether the landmark recognized is a variable landmark, a mode of the variable landmark changing in accordance with a time zone, controlling the memory so as to store the information on the landmark recognized, in accordance with a determination result, and estimating a position of the subject vehicle, based on the map information stored in the memory.

Abstract: A map generation apparatus generating a map for use in acquiring a position of a subject vehicle. The map generation apparatus includes: an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle in traveling; a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: extracting one or more feature points from a detection data acquired by the in-vehicle detection unit; generating a map with the feature points extracted from the detection data in the extracting; recognizing a landmark on the map generated in the generating; determining an importance of the landmark recognized in the recognizing; and correcting a number of the feature points included in the map generated in the generating, based on the importance determined in the determining.

Abstract: A traveling assist apparatus configured to support traveling of a vehicle traveling on a predetermined route along a target path, includes: a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory is configured to store a first map information of a first area and a second map information of a second area adjacent to the first area, including position information of lane marker defining a lane. The processor is configured to perform: generating a first target path of the vehicle in the first area based on the first map information stored in the memory and generating a second target path of the vehicle in the second area based on the second map information stored in the memory; and correcting the first target path in a boundary area between the first area and the second area based on the second target path.

Abstract: Provided is a canned motor in which vaporization of the handling liquid is reduced in a case where a rotor rotates at high speed. A canned motor 10 includes a stator 18 disposed in a stator chamber 26, a rotor 14 disposed in a rotor chamber 12, and a stator can 7 enclosing the rotor 14. Furthermore, the canned motor 10 includes a stator chamber inlet portion 43 configured such that a cooling liquid for cooling the stator 18 flows into the stator chamber 26, and a stator chamber outlet portion 44 configured such that the cooling liquid flows out from the stator chamber 26.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing the radiolabeled aryl compound (I) Ar—X, or a salt thereof, wherein X is 211At, 210At, 123I, 124I, 125I, or 131I. The method involves reacting the aryl boronic acid compound (II) Ar—Y, or a salt thereof, wherein Y is a borono group (—B(OH)2) or an ester group thereof, with a radionuclide selected from 211At, 210At, 123I, 124I, 125I and 131I, in the presence of an oxidizing agent selected from an alkali metal iodide, an alkali metal bromide, N-bromosuccinimide, N-chlorosuccinimide and hydrogen peroxide, in water.

Abstract: There is disclosed an additive for optical resins, wherein, even taking optical uses into consideration, the additive falls off little from such as binder resin layers or resin base materials and enables the exercise of uniform light diffusibility, without luminance unevenness, and high face luminescence. There is further disclosed an optical resin composition which comprises the above additive and a transparent resin and can display very excellent performances in optical properties such as no luminance unevenness and the face luminescence in the case of being employed for optical uses. The additive for optical resins is characterized by comprising organic-inorganic-composite particles having a structure including an organic polymer framework and a polysiloxane framework as essential frameworks. The optical resin composition is characterized by comprising the above additive for optical resins, according to the present invention, and a transparent resin.

Abstract: A swash plate (3, 18) included in a swash plate type compressor for compressing a refrigerant is made of an aluminum alloy as a base material. Sliding contact surfaces (3a, 18a) of the swash plate (3, 18) in sliding contact with shoes (7, 19) linking the swash plate (3, 18) to pistons (6, 17) are coated with a film of a solid lubricant containing at least one lubricating material selected from molybdenum disulfide, tungsten disulfide and graphite by a transfer method. Therefore, the performance of the film and the productivity thereof are improved.

Abstract: A swash plate (3, 18) included in a swash plate type compressor for compressing a refrigerant is made of an aluminum alloy as a base material. Sliding contact surfaces (3a, 18a) of the swash plate (3, 18) in sliding contact with shoes (7, 19) linking the swash plate (3, 18) to pistons (6, 17) are coated with a film of a solid lubricant containing at least one lubricating material selected from molybdenum disulfide, tungsten disulfide and graphite by a transfer method. Therefore, the performance of the film and the productivity thereof are improved.

Abstract: In the present compressor, a retainer is prevented from being deformed without impairing the sealing performance of a metal gasket provided between a covering member for closing a compression chamber of a cylinder block assembly and a discharge valve forming plate. A discharge valve forming plate is provided between a valve plate having at least one discharge port through which a fluid compressed in a compression chamber of a cylinder block assembly is discharged into a discharge chamber of a housing and the cylinder block assembly. A retainer for restricting the magnitude of opening of a discharge valve is integrally formed in a metal gasket which is provided between the discharge valve forming plate and the housing. The housing is provided with a restricting section at a position corresponding to a proximal portion of a rising portion of the retainer for restricting the proximal portion of the top surface of a rising portion.

Abstract: An inorganic dispersion stabilizer having a hydrophobic inorganic oxide such as hydrophobic silica dispersed in an aqueous medium in the presence of an hydrophilic organic compound such as alcohol. An suspension polymerization process for producing resinous particles of a narrow particle diameter distribution by dispersing a monomer into an dispersion medium in the presence of the inorganic dispersion stabilizer, and polymerizing the monomer.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a fine particles-dispersed composition that has extremely good dispersibility even if a polyamidic acid is contained in the composition; and a production process for such a composition. The polyamidic acid-containing and fine particles-dispersed composition comprises fine particles and a polar solvent solution, wherein the fine particles are dispersed in the polar solvent solution using an organic polymer as a dispersant, and this composition further comprises a polyamidic acid.

Abstract: Carbon black graft polymer which comprises carbon black and a polymer chain grafted thereto, the carbon black having a specific surface area of not more than 120 m2/g.