Abstract: The centrifugal projector (1) of the present invention has: a side plate (11), a plurality of blades (3) attached to the side plate (11), a control cage (41-45) disposed on a radial inner side of the side plate for releasing the projection material between blades from an opening portion (41a-45e), a distributor (22), disposed on a radial inner side of the control cage, for mixing and supplying the projection material to the control cage, and a rotary shaft (14) for rotating the side plate, blades and distributor; wherein the blades are formed to be pitched so that a radial outer side (3c) thereof is positioned to a rear in the rotational direction (R1) compared to a radial inner side (3b) thereof; the control cage (41-45) has a plurality of opening windows (41a-45e), or a single opening window in which a portion or all of a plurality of opening windows are respectively overlapped and integrated into a single piece.

Abstract: A fuel cell includes: an electrolyte membrane; a fuel-side catalyst layer placed on one surface of the electrolyte membrane; an oxidant-side catalyst layer placed on another surface of the electrolyte membrane; a fuel-side gas-diffusion layer placed on a main surface of the fuel-side catalyst layer; an oxidant-side gas-diffusion layer placed on a main surface of the oxidant-side catalyst layer; a pair of separators that hold the fuel-side gas-diffusion layer and the oxidant-side gas-diffusion layer therebetween; a frame that surrounds outer peripheries of the fuel-side gas-diffusion layer and the oxidant-side gas diffusion layer; a fuel-side seal member placed on a main surface of the fuel-side gas-diffusion layer; and an oxidant-side seal member placed on a main surface of the oxidant-side gas-diffusion layer. In the fuel cell, no spaces are provided between the fuel-side gas-diffusion layer and the fuel-side catalyst layer and between the oxidant-side gas-diffusion layer and the oxidant-side catalyst layer.

Abstract: An inspection method of a rolling element includes the steps of: projecting an X-ray from a light source to a rolling element, detecting the X-ray passing through the rolling element by a detector, calculating data of the detected X-ray to form an image, and detecting a defect in the rolling element based on the image. At the step of projecting an X-ray, the light source rotates relatively around the rolling element while the X-ray is projected to an entire region of the rolling element facing the light source. At the step of forming an image, data of the X-ray for one circuit around the rolling element is calculated to generate the image.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a shot processing device and a projector such that the projection amount of a projection material can be minimized.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a shot peening apparatus for which size increase is limited by projecting a shot material evenly on a workpiece using a single projector. The present invention provides a shot peening apparatus equipped with a workpiece-conveying mechanism for conveying a workpiece and a projector for projecting a shot material at the workpiece. The workpiece-conveying mechanism is equipped with: a pair of rollers, which extend in the workpiece conveyance direction, on which the workpieces are loaded, and which are rotated centered on the longitudinal axis line; an endless chain; and conveyance members for pressing and conveying workpieces in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: A scattering absorber measurement device includes a light source for outputting a plurality of light pulses having different wavelengths input to a scattering absorber, a photodetector for detecting each light pulse propagating inside the scattering absorber and output a detection signal, and a computation unit for calculating a reduced scattering coefficient and an absorption coefficient according to a time-resolved spectroscopic measurement method on the basis of the detection signal. The computation unit determines data related to a ratio of reduced scattering coefficients among wavelengths of the plurality of light pulses and calculates the reduced scattering coefficient and the absorption coefficient on the basis of a time-resolved measurement profile of each wavelength based on the detection signal and the data related to the ratio.

Abstract: A zoom lens system includes a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group that has a negative power and includes one lens element, a third lens group that has a positive power and includes at least two lens elements, and a subsequent lens group that has a positive power as a whole and includes at least two lens groups in order from an object side to an image side. In zooming operation, at least the first lens group to the third lens group move along an optical axis, and a condition of ?9.0<fG1/fG2<?2.0 is satisfied. Where fG1 represents a focal distance of the first lens group and fG2 represents a focal distance of the second lens group.

Abstract: A print control apparatus includes a generating unit that generates color image data based on gloss-control image data, the gloss-control image data containing a gloss control value for identifying a type of a surface effect being a visual or a tactile effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium, and generates clear-toner image data based on presence or absence of at least one post processing device connected to the printing device and based on a type of the post processing device; a post-processing control unit that controls the post processing device in accordance with the presence or absence of the post processing device connected to the printing device and the type of the post processing device; and an output unit that outputs the clear-toner image data.

Abstract: A working sheath tube (1) is used when a renovating operation of a pump-discharge pipe (4) branched from a peripheral wall (33) of a tubular barrel (3) inserted into a tank (2) in which a fuel is retained. The working sheath tube has a bottomed tubular shape which can be inserted into the barrel, and has a working space thereinside. A insertion hole (15a) into which a closing member (7) for closing a pump-discharge pipe is inserted is provided on and penetrates a sheath tube peripheral wall (15). While the sheath tube is inserted into the barrel, the insertion hole faces an opening of the pump-discharge pipe.

Abstract: A zoom lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having a positive power; a second lens group having a negative power; an aperture stop, a third lens group having a positive power; and a fourth lens group having a negative power. During zooming, a total length of the zoom lens system does not change, while a distance between each adjacent two of the lens groups changes, and the aperture stop moves along an optical axis independently of the second lens group and the third lens group. The zoom lens system satisfies condition (1) 6.0<f1/fw<20.0 and condition (2) 0.5<|f4|/fw<4.0, where f1 is a focal length of the first lens group, f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens group, and fw is a focal length of the zoom lens system at a wide-angle limit.

Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition having at least one elastomer component selected from the group consisting of elastomeric polymers (A) each of which has a side chain (a) containing a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety having a carbonyl-containing group and/or a nitrogen-containing heterocycle and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below, and elastomeric polymers (B) each of which contains a hydrogen-bond cross-linkable moiety and a covalent-bond cross-linking moiety in a side chain and has a glass-transition point of 25° C. or below; and a clay, wherein an amount of the clay contained is 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the elastomer component.

Abstract: A dialysate-extracting apparatus in which a collecting port can be disinfected with no disinfecting work to be performed by a worker. A dialysate-extracting apparatus includes a dialysate-extracting device having an introduction port and a discharge port each of which is connected to the flow route for liquid and allows the liquid to flow therethrough, and a collecting port from which the liquid flowing in the flow route is collectable; and an opening-and-closing device that is movable between a closing position where the opening-and-closing device covers the collecting port of the dialysate-extracting device and an opening position where the opening-and-closing device 6 opens the collecting port. The dialysate-extracting apparatus further includes an ultraviolet-applying device attached to the opening-and-closing device and that is capable of applying ultraviolet rays to the collecting port when the opening-and-closing device is at the closing position.

Abstract: A reciprocation pump has a supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber arranged adjacent to the supply liquid-side pumping chamber at an external side. A waste liquid-side sub-pumping chamber is arranged adjacent to the waste liquid-side pumping chamber at an external side. A rod extends through the supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber, the supply liquid-side pumping chamber, the waste liquid-side pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side sub-pumping chamber. The rod is connected to the reciprocation mechanism and the driving source to transmit a driving force of the driving source to the reciprocation mechanism. Sealing members are arranged, respectively, in walls through which the rod extends to partition the supply liquid-side pumping chamber and the supply liquid-side sub-pumping chamber as well as the waste liquid-side pumping chamber and the waste liquid-side sub-pumping chamber.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions which causes an information processing terminal to transmit first request information requesting an image processing apparatus to transmit first information, receive the first information, as a response to the first request information, from the image processing apparatus, determine whether a set value of the received first information is the first value or the second value. When the first information is set to the first value, the instructions further cause the information processing terminal to transmit second request information requesting the image processing apparatus to transmit the second information, and receive the second information, as a response to the second request information, from the image processing apparatus.

Abstract: A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly, an anode gas diffusion layer, and a cathode gas diffusion layer, a pair of separators for clamping a laminate made up of the membrane electrode assembly, the anode gas diffusion layer and cathode gas diffusion layer, and a frame that is formed from thermosetting resin and disposed between the separators to surround a periphery of the laminate. At least one of the anode gas diffusion layer and cathode gas diffusion layer is formed from a composite of thermoplastic resin and conductive particles, and includes a protrusion that protrudes beyond a level of a surface of the frame which faces one of the pair of separators in a state that the laminate is not clamped between the separators under a predetermined pressure.

Abstract: A stabilizer manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a stabilizer to which rubber bushes are heat-bonded is provided with a curing furnace in which high-frequency induction heating is performed, a conveyor for conveying the stabilizer in a conveying direction through the curing furnace, the rubber bushes being pressure-bonded to bonding locations on the stabilizer on which an adhesive layer is formed, power supply devices for supplying power to coils used in the high-frequency induction heating, and coils for generating a magnetic field in portions to be heated of the stabilizer near the bonding locations and for heating the portions to be heated; the coils being separated by a predetermined distance from the portions to be heated of a predetermined number of stabilizers conveyed in the conveying direction.

Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a restricting portion that is provided on at least one of surfaces of a housing and a worm wheel, the surfaces facing each other. The restricting portion is configured to restrict movement of the worm wheel to maintain a meshing relationship between a worm and the worm wheel that allows torque transmission between the worm and the worm wheel, when fixing of the worm wheel to an output shaft of a power assist actuator in an axial direction of the output shaft is released and the worm wheel is moved in the axial direction.

Abstract: Provided are a lens power measurement device and a lens power measurement method whereby lens power measurement results of a contact lens can be displayed in a manner which is easy to view, while maintaining fully satisfactory precision of the lens power measurement results. From lens power distribution information determined based on optical property measurement information of a contact lens, correction target information including positive and negative abnormal peaks on both sides of a lens central axis in a lens central area is selected. Lens power distribution measurement results are then obtained by applying substitution using a correction function that smoothes out the abnormal peaks to the selected correction target information to smooth the lens power measurement values.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a drum-type shot peening device capable of shortening processing time. This shot peening device comprises: a bottomed, cylindrical drum having one end thereof open; and a projector provided on the open side of the drum and which projects projection material on to a workpiece inserted inside the drum.

Abstract: A stabilizer manufacturing apparatus is adapted to bond a rubber bush, which is a bush made of rubber disposed between a stabilizer and a vehicle body, to a rubber bush bonding location where an adhesive layer of the stabilizer is formed. The stabilizer manufacturing apparatus is provided with: a curing furnace for heating the stabilizer, which is conveyed by a manufacturing line conveying unit and has the rubber bush bonding location with which the rubber bush is press-contacted, and performing the bonding; a heat source device that heats air; a blower device that sends the air heated by the heat source device as hot air; and a plurality of nozzles that are disposed along the manufacturing line conveying unit in the curing furnace and blow the hot air against, at a near position from, a location in the vicinity of the rubber bush bonding location of the stabilizer.