Abstract: An electronic component manufacturing method includes a blotting process of bringing a conductive paste applied to an end portion of each electronic component body held by a jig into contact with a surface of a surface plate. The blotting process includes simultaneous performance of a distance changing process of changing the distance between an end face of each electronic component body and the surface of the surface plate and a position changing process of changing a two-dimensional position where the end face of the electronic component body is projected on the surface of the surface plate in such a manner that the direction of the movement of two-dimensional position in parallel to the surface of the surface plate successively varies (e.g., along a circular path).

Abstract: A film deposition apparatus includes: a chamber having a film deposition gas introduced thereinto and exhausted therefrom, in which film deposition with the film deposition gas is performed on an object to be treated; and a film conveying part disposed in the chamber and conveying in a roll-to-roll manner a long film that is the object to be treated. The film conveying part includes: a rotatable roller with part of whose peripheral surface the long film comes into contact; and a nozzle pipe for spraying an inert gas onto a region of the roller, the region being not covered by the long film.

Abstract: A motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing accommodating the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump section driven by the motor are included. The inverter substrate is disposed on one side of the motor. The pump section is disposed on the other side of the motor. The housing has a motor housing section accommodating the motor, an inverter housing section accommodating the inverter substrate, and a breather section establishing communication between inside and outside of the housing. The motor housing section has an accommodation tubular section accommodating the motor and a brim section spreading outward in a radial direction from an end of the accommodation tubular section. The inverter housing section is disposed on one side of the brim section and overlaps the brim section when seen in the axial direction. The breather section is disposed at the brim section.

Abstract: An inverter substrate has a plurality of heat generating elements mounted thereon and disposed at intervals from each other. A housing has an inverter housing section that accommodates the inverter substrate. The inverter housing section has a first member that faces one plate surface of a pair of plate surfaces of the inverter substrate, a second member that faces the other plate surface of the pair of plate surfaces, and a plurality of heat conductive sheets that are disposed between the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate and are brought into contact with the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate. The heat conductive sheets are thermally connected to the heat generating elements. The heat conductive sheets are individually disposed at positions at which the heat conductive sheets overlap the plurality of heat generating elements in a plan view of the inverter substrate.

Abstract: An electronic component manufacturing method includes a blotting process of bringing a conductive paste applied to an end portion of each electronic component body held by a jig into contact with a surface of a surface plate. The blotting process includes simultaneous performance of a distance changing process of changing the distance between an end face of each electronic component body and the surface of the surface plate and a position changing process of changing a two-dimensional position where the end face of the electronic component body is projected on the surface of the surface plate in such a manner that the direction of the movement of two-dimensional position in parallel to the surface of the surface plate successively varies (e.g., along a circular path).

Abstract: A method for forming a coating film on a powder includes: a dispersion step of setting a container having contained the powder P in a main body of a dispersion device, and dispersing the powder in the container by the main body of the dispersion device; and an ALD step for forming the coating film on a surface of the powder, by setting the container having been removed from the main body of the dispersion device in a main body of an ALD apparatus in such a state that gas can be introduced and be exhausted, introducing a gas for performing an ALD cycle into the container, filling the container with the gas, and then exhausting the gas.

Abstract: To perform blast quenching for a plurality of solution-treated workpieces in a uniform manner for a group of the workpieces to allow the group of the workpieces to have a uniform quality, there is provided a quenching apparatus configured to perform quenching treatment on a solution-treated workpiece unloaded from a solution treatment furnace. The solution treatment furnace includes a plurality of workpiece storage chambers arranged horizontally into an annular shape and stacked in a vertical direction and a plurality of workpiece unloading ports corresponding to the workpiece storage chambers. The quenching apparatus is provided so as to be movable in accordance with the positions of the workpiece unloading ports.

Abstract: Provided is an electric pump device which includes a motor having a shaft extending along a first central axis, a pump portion driven by the motor, and a housing for housing the motor and the pump portion. The housing includes: a housing body portion which has a bottomed tube shape and extends in an axial direction, a flange portion which expands radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion, a seal portion which has a ring shape extending in a circumferential direction and is arranged at a corner portion in which the outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion and an end surface facing one axial side of the flange portion are connected, and a projection portion extending from a bottom portion of the housing body portion toward one axial side. A second central axis of the projection portion is arranged at a position shifted in a radial direction from the first central axis.

Abstract: Provided is an electric pump device which includes a motor having a shaft extending along a first central axis, a pump portion driven by the motor, and a housing for housing the motor and the pump portion. The housing includes: a housing body portion which has a bottomed tube shape and extends in an axial direction, a flange portion which expands radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion, and a projection portion extending from a bottom portion of the housing body portion toward one axial side. A second central axis of the projection portion is arranged at a position shifted in a radial direction from the first central axis. The flange portion has convex portions projected from the end surface facing the one axial side of the flange portion toward the one axial side.

Abstract: An electric pump device includes a motor having a rotor and a stator portions, a pump portion and a housing. The stator portion has a stator core, and coils each having a winding portion and a crossover portion. The housing has a housing body portion having a tubular shape and extending in the axial direction, and a flange portion expanding radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the housing body portion. The flange portion has an end surface that faces toward one side in the axial direction and is disposed in the axial direction between a first and a second virtual plane. The first and the second virtual planes pass through parts of the stator core, the winding portion, and the crossover portion located respectively closest to one and the other sides in the axial direction and expanding in a direction perpendicular to a central axis.

Abstract: A heat-treating furnace has: a rotary shaft; a rotary bottom surface pivotally supported by the rotary shaft and rotates; a plurality of workpiece storage chambers arranged on the rotary bottom surface in a multi-stage torus configuration around an axis of the rotary shaft as a center; a hollow bell-shaped hot-blast guide disposed in a center of the torus configuration on the rotary bottom surface around the axis of the rotary shaft as a center so as to decrease a volumetric capacity in the furnace and to adjust a quantity of a hot blast fed in from above itself into the workpiece storage chamber on each stage; a furnace body bottom surface spaced away from the rotary bottom surface; and a furnace body lateral surface disposed on the furnace body bottom surface.

Abstract: An electronic component manufacturing apparatus has a holding member for holding an electronic component body, a surface plate, a moving unit that causes the holding member and the surface plate to relatively move, and a control unit that controls the moving unit. The control unit causes the moving unit to simultaneously perform a distance changing movement for changing, by shortening or extending, the distance between an end face of each electronic component body and a surface of the surface plate, and a position changing movement for changing a two-dimensional position where the end face of the electronic component body is projected on the surface of the surface plate in such a manner that the direction in which the two-dimensional position moves in parallel with the surface of the surface plate successively varies (for example, along a circular path).

Abstract: An electric pump device is provided. The electric pump device includes a motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing for housing the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump portion driven by power of the motor. The housing includes a motor housing portion for housing the motor and an inverter housing portion for housing the inverter substrate. The motor housing portion has strut portions which extend inside the inverter housing portion and fixed to the inverter substrate.

Abstract: An electric pump device is provided. The device includes a motor, an inverter substrate, a housing for housing the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump portion driven by power of the motor. The housing has a bearing holding wall portion which is disposed on one side in an axial direction of a stator and disposed on the other side in an axial direction of the inverter substrate to hold at least one of bearings; the bearing holding wall has recesses which are recessed from a surface of the bearing holding wall facing the one side in the axial direction toward the other side in the axial direction; the inverter substrate has an electronic component protruding toward the other side in the axial direction from a plate surface of the inverter substrate facing the other side in the axial direction; and the electronic component is inserted into the recesses.

Abstract: A motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing accommodating the motor and the inverter substrate, and a pump section driven by the motor are included. The inverter substrate is disposed on one side of the motor. The pump section is disposed on the other side of the motor. The housing has a motor housing section accommodating the motor, an inverter housing section accommodating the inverter substrate, and a breather section establishing communication between inside and outside of the housing. The motor housing section has an accommodation tubular section accommodating the motor and a brim section spreading outward in a radial direction from an end of the accommodation tubular section. The inverter housing section is disposed on one side of the brim section and overlaps the brim section when seen in the axial direction. The breather section is disposed at the brim section.

Abstract: An inverter substrate has a plurality of heat generating elements mounted thereon and disposed at intervals from each other. A housing has an inverter housing section that accommodates the inverter substrate. The inverter housing section has a first member that faces one plate surface of a pair of plate surfaces of the inverter substrate, a second member that faces the other plate surface of the pair of plate surfaces, and a plurality of heat conductive sheets that are disposed between the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate and are brought into contact with the first member or the second member and the inverter substrate. The heat conductive sheets are thermally connected to the heat generating elements. The heat conductive sheets are individually disposed at positions at which the heat conductive sheets overlap the plurality of heat generating elements in a plan view of the inverter substrate.

Abstract: One aspect of the motor unit of the disclosure includes a motor, an inverter substrate electrically connected to the motor, a housing configured to accommodate the motor and the inverter substrate, a terminal located at an end portion of a wiring member which extends over an outside and an inside of the housing, and inserted into a terminal insertion hole which passes through the inverter substrate, a screw member inserted into a screw insertion hole which passes through the inverter substrate and configured to fix the inverter substrate to the housing or the motor, and a substrate positioning structure configured to position the inverter substrate with respect to the housing.

Abstract: A cooler grows in size and its structure becomes complicated in a phase-change cooler if it is intended to cool a plurality of heating elements; therefore, a phase-change cooler according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a heat-conducting board configured to be thermally connected to a cooling object; heat receiving means for storing a refrigerant and receiving heat of the cooling object through the heat-conducting board; radiation means for radiating heat, condensing and devolatilizing a vapor-phase refrigerant arising from vaporization of the refrigerant in the heat receiving means; and connection means for connecting the heat receiving means and the radiation means.

Abstract: An electronic component manufacturing method includes a blotting process of bringing a conductive paste applied to an end portion of each electronic component body held by a jig into contact with a surface of a surface plate. The blotting process includes simultaneous performance of a distance changing process of changing the distance between an end face of each electronic component body and the surface of the surface plate and a position changing process of changing a two-dimensional position where the end face of the electronic component body is projected on the surface of the surface plate in such a manner that the direction of the movement of two-dimensional position in parallel to the surface of the surface plate successively varies (e.g., along a circular path).

Abstract: A game machine input device mounted on a game machine provided with a playfield; the game machine input device includes: an input unit provided toward the front of the playfield and configured to accept input; and a projection part configured to radiate light toward the playfield to project a first image in a region within the visual field of a player viewing the playfield.