Abstract: A flow generator includes a housing, a blower structured to generate a flow of pressurized breathable air, and a suspension device to support the blower within the housing and provide a pressure seal between low and high pressure sides of the blower. The suspension device includes a bellows-like portion provided along the perimeter of the blower to absorb shock applied at least radially to the blower and one or more cones provided along upper and/or lower sides of the blower to absorb shock applied at least axially to the blower.

Abstract: The purpose is to suppress positional misalignment between the diffusion layer and the frame. The manufacturing method of an electrode frame assembly for fuel cell comprises the steps of: (a) placing a frame and a diffusion layer to be stacked on each other; and (b) punching out the diffusion layer and the frame in the stacked state to form in the frame an opening in a shape matching with the punched-out diffusion layer.

Abstract: Provided is an antistatic composition for a vehicle, including a nickel powder and a polyolefin resin. The antistatic composition contains 2.5 to 15 vol. % of the nickel powder as a pigment volume concentration (vol. %).

Abstract: A floating-bush bearing device (1) for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft (2), includes: a floating bush (3) having a cylindrical shape and including a bearing hole (33) into which the rotational shaft (2) is to be inserted; and a bearing housing (4) which rotatably houses the floating bush (3).

Abstract: A method for allocating port assignments for transmitting a reserved network stream across a network node comprises determining a cycle time associated with a network node. The method also comprises establishing, for at least one port of the network node, a plurality of virtual layers associated with the cycle time, wherein each of the plurality of virtual layers is divided into 2n equally-spaced slots per cycle (where n>0). The method further comprises receiving a reserved stream request associated with transmission of a reserved stream across the node, and determining a number of slots required to transmit the reserved stream. The method also comprises assigning one or more slots associated with a port of the network node to the transmission of packets associated with the reserved stream based on the determined number of slots. The method further comprises transmitting the stream according to the slot assignment associated with the port of the network node.

Abstract: The present invention provides a supercharger with an electric motor having improved cooling performance for bearings, in the case of employing a grease lubrication system as a lubrication system of the bearings. A supercharger with an electric motor includes: a rotary shaft; a compressor wheel; a compressor housing for housing the compressor wheel; an electric motor including a motor rotor and a motor stator, and giving rotation force to the rotary shaft; a motor housing, for housing the electric motor; a first grease-sealed bearing for rotatably supporting the rotary shaft; and a bearing housing for housing the first grease-sealed bearing, and disposed between the compressor housing and the motor housing. Inside the bearing housing, a cooling passage through which a cooling medium flows is provided in a circumferential direction on an outer circumferential side of the first grease-sealed bearing.

Abstract: To reduce bearing loss due to an oil-shortage region on a pad facing a thrust collar, a thrust bearing according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a thrust collar, and at least one bearing pad disposed along a circumferential direction on a bearing surface, the at least one bearing pad having a tapered portion and a land portion. Each of the at least one bearing pad is formed so that a periphery portion on an outer side with respect to a radial direction gets closer to an inner side with respect to the radial direction toward an upstream side with respect to the rotational direction.

Abstract: A turbocharger according to one embodiment of this invention includes: a rotation shaft; a compressor impeller; a compressor housing; a bearing housing connected to the compressor housing and configured to define a diffuser flow path between the bearing housing and the compressor housing; a thrust plate configured to support the rotation shaft in an axial direction; an insert component configured to retain the thrust plate between the insert component and a protruding wall portion in the bearing housing; a snap ring configured to be inserted in a first circumferential groove formed in an inner peripheral wall surface of the bearing housing, to thereby fix the insert component in a state in which the insert component is pressed against the thrust plate; and a diffuser component having a diffuser surface extending along a direction orthogonal to an axis of the rotation shaft between the inner peripheral wall surface of an end portion of the bearing housing on one side thereof and an outer peripheral edge of the

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an obtainment unit configured to obtain an image; a setting unit configured to set, based on a shading status of a region of a first subject out of a plurality of subjects included in the image, a virtual light source for virtually emitting light on a region of a second subject in the image that is different to the first subject; and a generation unit configured to generate an image having a shading status such that light based on the set virtual light source is emitted onto the region of the second subject.

Abstract: Provided is a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane with a starting material such as a biocompatible compound that is not easily processible into a membrane, particularly a technique for fabricating a novel thin membrane of a composition that is gradually polymerized from a membrane surface into the membrane in the cross sectional direction of the membrane, and having, for example, different structures on the front and back of the membrane. The technique includes the steps of preparing a solution of a starting material compound; forming a thin membrane of the solution on a base material surface; and forming the organic polymer thin membrane through a polymerization reaction caused by irradiating the exposed surface of the thin membrane with a plasma or an electron beam.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a first area from a first image including an area of a face of an object, the first image being an image captured in a state where light is emitted by a flash, and the first area being an area with luminance higher than a first threshold, within the area of the face, and a correction unit configured to determine a second area that is an area different from the first area in the first image, and correct a color of the first area in the first image, by using information about a color of the second area in the first image, wherein the correction unit determines the second area, based on a second image including an area of the face of the object and captured in a state where light is not emitted by the flash.

Abstract: Provided is coil device 1 including: core 10 including winding core part 12 and flange parts 14a, 14a provided on both edges of winding core part 12, and coil part 30 including wires 31, 32 wound on winding core part 12. Electrode film 40, having wire connecting part 41 where wire edges 31a, 31b, 32a, 32b are connected, and formed on a surface of the flange parts 14a, 14a. Metal terminal 50 is connected to a terminal fitting part 42 formed on a surface of electrode film 40 at a place different from the wire connecting part. According to the invention, a coil device having a high reliability for bonding at mounting part can be provided.

Abstract: The invention provides a glucoside compound, which is capable of providing a phosphoramidite, which can be produced at low cost and can produce a nucleic acid in high yield and with high purity. The glycoside compound has the formula wherein B, R1, R2, and R3 are as described herein.

Abstract: The present invention is to perform synchronous shooting using synchronous type wireless communication more effectively. An imaging apparatus 1 includes: a synchronous communication unit M1 configured to perform synchronous type wireless communication to send/receive data in a communication synchronized state in which a communication clock of a communication partner and an own communication clock are synchronized; a synchronous communication control unit M2 configured to make a transition to the communication synchronized state to perform the synchronous type wireless communication with other imaging apparatuses that are to perform synchronous shooting; a broadcast reception unit M4 configured to receive a broadcast wireless signal transmitted to plural imaging apparatuses in the communication synchronized state; and a first control unit 104a configured to perform shooting at timing when the broadcast wireless signal is received.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a degree-of-degradation detector, a degree-of-degradation estimation unit, a correction system selector and a gradation correction unit. The degree-of-degradation detector detects a degree of degradation of an image data. The degree-of-degradation estimation unit estimates a dispersion of the degree of degradation in the image data. The correction system selector selects either a first gradation correction system or a second gradation correction system in accordance with the dispersion of the degree of degradation. The gradation correction unit performs gradation correction of the image data based on either the selected first or second gradation correction system.

Abstract: A vibration transducer includes a silicon substrate, a first oxide film formed on the silicon substrate, an activation layer formed on the first oxide film, a second oxide film formed on the activation layer, a polysilicon layer formed on the second oxide film, and a substrate contact part. A vibrator, a vibrator electrode electrically conducted with the vibrator, a fixed electrode close to the vibrator and a vacuum chamber configured to surround the vibrator are formed in the activation layer. The polysilicon layer forms a shell. The substrate contact part is configured to electrically conduct the polysilicon layer and the silicon substrate, and is formed to continuously surround the vacuum chamber in a region, in which the vibrator, the vibrator electrode and the fixed electrode of the activation layer are not formed, of the activation layer.

Abstract: Provided is coil device 1 including: core 10 including winding core part 12 and flange parts 14a, 14a provided on both edges of winding core part 12, and coil part 30 including wires 31, 32 wound on winding core part 12. Electrode film 40, having wire connecting part 41 where wire edges 31a, 31b, 32a, 32b are connected, and formed on a surface of the flange parts 14a, 14a. Metal terminal 50 is connected to a terminal fitting part 42 formed on a surface of electrode film 40 at a place different from the wire connecting part. According to the invention, a coil device having a high reliability for bonding at mounting part can be provided.

Abstract: The pharmaceutical injection device of the present invention comprises a cartridge holder, a main case, a piston, a motor, an opening component, an open/closed detection switch, and a controller. The motor drives the piston in either an insertion direction in which the piston is inserted into a pharmaceutical cartridge, or a pull-out direction in which the piston is pulled out of the pharmaceutical cartridge. The opening component opens the cartridge holder in conjunction with the movement of the piston in the pull-out direction. The open/closed detection switch detects whether the cartridge holder is open or closed. When the open/closed detection switch detects that the cartridge holder is open, the controller controls the motor so as to stop the piston.

Abstract: A vehicle power source includes: a generator coupled to an engine; a first power storage coupled to the generator; a second power storage coupled, in parallel with the first storage, to the generator, in which a terminal voltage of the second power storage is lower than a terminal voltage of the first power storage; and a charge and discharge controller that controls a generated voltage of the generator and controls charge and discharge of the first power storage. The charge and discharge controller raises the generated voltage to a voltage higher than the terminal voltage of the first power storage, to cause power supply from the generator to the first power storage. The charge and discharge controller lowers the generated voltage to a voltage lower than the terminal voltage of the first power storage, to cause power supply from the first power storage to an electric load.

Abstract: A method for making a poly-phase field winding for a slotless stator includes: forming the first coil group by winding an insulated wire for each coil winding in a first direction around a mandrel; axially shifting along the mandrel the insulated wire from a trailing edge of each coil winding a distance substantially equal to one half of twice the number of coil groups multiplied by the number of coil windings minus one times the width of one of the completed windings to position the wires at a leading edge of each of coil winding in the second coil group; forming the second coil group by winding the insulated wire for each coil winding in the first direction; removing the mandrel from the wound coil groups; collapsing the wound coil groups to a single layer web, and wrapping the single layer web into a cylinder to form the field winding.