Abstract: A stator includes: a plurality of stator blocks; a plurality of coils; and a supporter supporting the plurality of stator blocks. Each of the plurality of stator blocks includes: a yoke portion located at its outermost perimeter; and a teeth portion protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion. The yoke portion has a width dimension along the circumferential direction, and the width dimension of the yoke portion is greater than a width dimension of the teeth portion along the circumferential direction. The supporter is closed in the circumferential direction. The supporter holds the plurality of stator blocks such that the plurality of stator blocks are housed in an interior of the supporter. The supporter has an inner peripheral surface in contact with at least an outer peripheral surface of the yoke portion of each of the plurality of stator blocks.

Abstract: A braided part connection structure includes a braided part having a tubular shape covering an insulated wire along a longitudinal direction of the braided part connection structure and a shield member having a tubular shape and electrically connected and fixed to the braided part. The shield member includes a braided part joining portion having a plurality of openings arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the shield member in a portion of the shield member in the longitudinal direction, and a welding portion defined by two openings adjacent to each other of the plurality of openings. The braided part covers the braided part joining portion and is welded to the welding portion.

Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of stator blocks aligned in a circumferential direction and a plurality of coils each made of a winding wound around a corresponding one of the plurality of stator blocks. The stator includes a plurality of insulation members electrically insulating from the plurality of stator blocks from the plurality of coils for respective groups of the plurality of stator blocks and the plurality of coils. Each of the plurality of stator blocks includes a yoke portion located at its outermost perimeter and a teeth portion protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion. Each of the plurality of insulation members includes a pair of insulating plates arranged to face each other across the teeth portion. Each of the pair of insulating plates has a width greater than a width of the teeth portion.

Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of stator blocks aligned in a circumferential direction and a plurality of coils each made of a winding wound around a corresponding one of the plurality of stator blocks. The stator includes a plurality of insulation members electrically insulating from the plurality of stator blocks from the plurality of coils for respective groups of the plurality of stator blocks and the plurality of coils. Each of the plurality of stator blocks includes a yoke portion located at its outermost perimeter, a teeth portion protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion, and an insulating portion being electrically insulating and covering a surface of the teeth portion. Each of the plurality of insulation members includes a pair of insulating plates. Each of the pair of insulating plates has a width greater than a width of the teeth portion, and the pair of insulating plates are arranged to face each other across the teeth portion.

Abstract: An electric tool includes a motor. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor rotates with respect to the stator. At least one of the stator or the rotor includes a core (stator core or rotor core) that includes an oriented steel sheet.

Abstract: A terminal plating material includes a metallic base that contains copper or a copper alloy, and a carbon composite silver plating layer that disposed on the metallic base and contains either silver or a silver alloy and carbon.

Abstract: A connection structure of a press-clamping terminal and a cable has: a cable that has a core wire and an insulation sheath that covers the core wire; a press-clamping terminal that is press-clamped to the core wire exposed from the insulation sheath at a terminal of the cable; and a cut portion that has a cross section formed in a semicircular shape and is formed in a press-clamping direction in the exposed core wire.

Abstract: A connection structure of a bus bar and a cable has: a bus bar that serves as an external terminal; a cable that has a core wire exposed from an insulation sheath at a terminal, the core wire being joined with the bus bar; a protective member that covers at least a joining portion of the bus bar and the core wire of the cable; and a cut portion that is formed in the core wire at the joining portion with the bus bar.

Abstract: A connecter terminal structure includes: a male housing of a male connecter; a male terminal accommodated in the male housing and including a first electrical contact portion; a stepped shaft portion formed at a tip end of the first electrical contact portion; a hood portion surrounding the first electrical contact portion; an annular terminal spring externally fitted to the stepped shaft portion; and an insulating cap fixed to a tip end of the stepped shaft portion and configured to hold the annular terminal spring. The connecter terminal structure further includes: a female housing of a female connecter; a female terminal accommodating portion configured to be fitted into the hood portion; and a female terminal accommodated in the female terminal accommodating portion and including a second electrical contact portion having a tubular shape to allow the first electrical contact portion to be inserted therein.

Abstract: A vehicular aerodynamic device includes first and second links being coupled via first and second engagement members and integrally rotating, thereby transmitting drive force to an aerodynamic member. The first and second engagement members are coupled to the first and second links, respectively, and integrally rotate by engaging with each other, and rotate relative to each other by external force. At least one of a first coupling portion that couples the first link and the first engagement member and a second coupling portion that couples the second link and the second engagement member includes clutch-side and link-side engagement surfaces integrally rotating by engaging with each other. A second gap between the clutch-side and link-side engagement surfaces in a second relative rotation direction is narrower than a first gap between the clutch-side and link-side engagement surfaces in a first relative rotation direction.

Abstract: A connector includes: an electric wire; a terminal connected to the electric wire; a housing having a housing space to house a connection portion of the electric wire and the terminal; a seal member to seal an opening portion of the housing space to isolate the connection portion housed in the housing space from an outside; and a heat storage member located in the housing space.

Abstract: A connection structure of a press-clamping terminal and a cable has: a cable that has a core wire and an insulation sheath that covers the core wire; a press-clamping terminal that is press-clamped to the core wire exposed from the insulation sheath at a terminal of the cable; and a cut portion that has a cross section formed in a semicircular shape and is formed in a press-clamping direction in the exposed core wire.

Abstract: A connection structure of a bus bar and a cable has: a bus bar that serves as an external terminal; a cable that has a core wire exposed from an insulation sheath at a terminal, the core wire being joined with the bus bar; a protective member that covers at least a joining portion of the bus bar and the core wire of the cable; and a cut portion that is formed in the core wire at the joining portion with the bus bar.

Abstract: A braided part connection structure includes a braided part having a tubular shape covering an insulated wire along a longitudinal direction of the braided part connection structure and a shield member having a tubular shape and electrically connected and fixed to the braided part. The shield member includes a braided part joining portion having a plurality of openings arranged at intervals along a circumferential direction of the shield member in a portion of the shield member in the longitudinal direction, and a welding portion defined by two openings adjacent to each other of the plurality of openings. The braided part covers the braided part joining portion and is welded to the welding portion.

Abstract: A connecter terminal structure includes: a male housing of a male connecter; a male terminal accommodated in the male housing and including a first electrical contact portion; a stepped shaft portion formed at a tip end of the first electrical contact portion; a hood portion surrounding the first electrical contact portion; an annular terminal spring externally fitted to the stepped shaft portion; and an insulating cap fixed to a tip end of the stepped shaft portion and configured to hold the annular terminal spring. The connecter terminal structure further includes: a female housing of a female connecter; a female terminal accommodating portion configured to be fitted into the hood portion; and a female terminal accommodated in the female terminal accommodating portion and including a second electrical contact portion having a tubular shape to allow the first electrical contact portion to be inserted therein.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a female terminal includes: (i) forming a cutout part with a predetermined width in a direction intersecting with an axial direction of a tubular member, on a part of a first tubular portion located at a side of one end of the tubular member, crushing the first tubular portion to form an electric wire connection portion, and forming as a terminal contact portion a second tubular portion located at a side of the other end of the tubular member, and (ii) electrically connecting a core wire exposed from an end of an electric wire to the electric wire connection portion.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a female terminal includes: (i) cutting a portion located at a side of one end of a tubular member into an L-shape when viewed from a direction intersecting with an axial direction of the tubular member to form an electric wire connection portion at the side of the one end of the tubular member and form as a terminal contact portion a portion remaining in a tubular shape at a side of the other end of the tubular member; and (ii) electrically connecting a core wire exposed from an end of an electric wire to the electric wire connection portion.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a conductor connecting structure which may enable miniaturization in the height direction. A conductor connecting structure is intended for connecting a conductor to an electric wire with a plurality of strands, wherein the conductor has a plate shape, and wherein it is configured so that the plurality of strands is butt-connected to an end face of the conductor, the plurality of strands having a same plate shape as the end face of the conductor in advance. This enables the electric wire to be connected to the end face of the conductor by configuring the plurality of strands constituting the electric wire in the same plate shape as the end face of the conductor in advance. This may enable the miniaturization in the height direction.

Abstract: A movable spoiler device provided in a front part of a vehicle body, the movable spoiler device includes: a link mechanism in which a plurality of links are coupled and configured to operate by driving the links by an actuator; a spoiler member connected with one of the plurality of links and being deployable and retractable with respect to the vehicle body by operation of the link mechanism; and a clutch mechanism provided on a driving force transmission path between the actuator and the spoiler member, and configured to block transmission of a driving force when an external force equal to or greater than a predetermined value is applied to the spoiler member with the spoiler member being in a deployed state.

Abstract: A method for processing substrates includes providing a first substrate including a first region and a second region, the first region including a stack of a silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film, the second region including a single layer of a silicon oxide film; etching the first substrate with a process gas including a sulfur containing gas, in accordance with varied flow rates of the sulfur containing gas, thereby determining each relationship between a given flow rate from among the varied flow rates of the sulfur containing gas and a shape difference between respective recessed portions formed in the first region and the second region; determining a flow rate of the sulfur containing gas on a basis of each relationship; and etching a second substrate at the determined flow rate of the sulfur containing gas.