Abstract: A gear shift operation device for a vehicle to which a multiple-stage automatic transmission is mounted, is provided. By a control lever being manually operated in a range switchable mode, a range position is switched at least between a D-range where automatic transmission is performed and an R-range, and by the control lever being manually operated in a manual transmission mode, a gear change is performed. An operation reaction force when the control lever is manually operated is set larger when the gear change is performed in the manual transmission mode than when the range position is switched in the range switchable mode.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a stator includes a supporting member configured to support a stator core, at least one processing jig having a cylindrical part and a plurality of protruding parts, and an operating unit. The operating unit is configured to perform, in a state where each of coil protruding parts is inserted between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the protruding parts of the processing jig and an axial end face of the stator core is located close to the protruding parts of the processing jig, a first operation and a second operation either simultaneously or alternately. The first operation is an operation of relatively rotating the stator core and the processing jig in a circumferential direction of the stator core. The second operation is an operation of relatively moving the stator core and the processing jig away from each other in an axial direction of the stator core.

Abstract: The pump includes a rotational shaft (1), an impeller (3) fixed to the rotational shaft (1), a casing (2) that houses the impeller (3), a double mechanical seal (20), a seal chamber (25) that houses the double mechanical seal (20), an oil reservoir (30) configured to store oil, an oil supply line (26) providing fluid communication between the oil reservoir (30) and the seal chamber (25), a first oil pump (31) configured to pressurize oil supplied from the oil reservoir (30) and deliver the oil to the seal chamber (25), a second oil pump (42) arranged in parallel with the first oil pump (31), an oil outlet line (27) coupled to the seal chamber (25), and a pressure retaining mechanism for retaining pressure of oil in the seal chamber (25).

Abstract: To allow a fiber reinforced laminate to have sufficient light shielding ability and to improve adherence at the interface in the laminate and durability needed for it used for a shutter blade. A fiber reinforced laminate of the present invention includes: a substrate; a black coating; and a fiber reinforced plastic layer, characterized in that the black coating is provided between the substrate and the fiber reinforced plastic layer and contains a binder resin, black particles and a filler.

Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a storage device and one or more processors configured to function as a setting unit and a record control unit. The setting unit sets a record level of history information according to a reliability of derivative information derived from output information of a sensor. The record control unit performs control to store the history information in the storage device according to the record level.

Abstract: A sealing system includes: a double mechanical seal having a pump-side sealing mechanism (10, 12) and an atmospheric-side sealing mechanism (11, 13); a pump mechanism (19) driven by a rotational shaft (1); a first medium circulation line (30) for circulating a fluid barrier-and-cooling medium between a first chamber (22a) and a second chamber (22b), the first medium circulation line (30) being coupled to the first chamber (22a) and the second chamber (22b), the fluid barrier-and-cooling medium being different from a fluid handled by the centrifugal pump; a heat exchanger (21) and a shut-off valve (28) attached to the first medium circulation line (30); a second medium circulation line (31) bypassing the shut-off valve (28); and a medium pressurizing pump (45) and an on-off valve (23) attached to the second medium circulation line (31).

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible light-emitting device which is a flexible device with which the light leakage is less liable to occur even if it is deformed. In order to achieve the above object, the flexible light-emitting device of the present invention includes a light-emitting layer, a low refractive index layer, and a high refractive index layer, wherein the light-emitting layer, the low refractive index layer, and the high refractive index layer are stacked in this order, the low refractive index layer has a refractive index lower than that of the light-emitting layer and has a haze of less than 5%, and the high refractive index layer has a refractive index higher than that of the low refractive index layer.

Abstract: To allow a fiber reinforced laminate to have sufficient light shielding ability and to improve adherence at the interface in the laminate and durability needed for it used for a shutter blade. A fiber reinforced laminate of the present invention includes: a substrate; a black coating; and a fiber reinforced plastic layer, characterized in that the black coating is provided between the substrate and the fiber reinforced plastic layer and contains a binder resin, black particles and a filler.

Abstract: To allow a fiber reinforced laminate to have sufficient light shielding ability and to improve adherence at the interface in the laminate and durability needed for it used for a shutter blade. A fiber reinforced laminate of the present invention includes: a substrate; a black coating; and a fiber reinforced plastic layer, characterized in that the black coating is provided between the substrate and the fiber reinforced plastic layer and contains a binder resin, black particles and a filler.

Abstract: Even if a liquid is attached and solidified on a peripheral surface of a coating roller, application of the liquid on a medium is uniformly performed. At least a part of contacting member is separated from the coating roller and the coating roller is rotated in a second direction as a reverse direction to a first direction to pull out the liquid from a liquid retaining space onto the coating roller. Next, by interrupting the above separation and rotating the coating roller in the first direction, a liquid reservoir is formed in the periphery of a contacting portion between the coating roller and the contacting member.

Abstract: A liquid application mechanism includes a liquid application unit that applies liquid to an application medium, and a liquid supply unit that supplies the liquid to the liquid application unit from a storage unit. The liquid supply unit recovers a portion of the liquid to the storage unit, the portion of the liquid being a portion that has been supplied to the liquid application unit and has not been applied to the application medium. At a bottom portion of the storage unit, a plurality of trap space sections separated from each other by ribs are formed. The trap space sections have continuous rectangular shapes, and are open upward in the direction opposite to gravity. The rib height of the trap space sections is equal to or greater than 3 mm, and the rib interval of the trap space sections is in the range from 2 mm to 10 mm.

Abstract: A technology is provided that suppresses a noise that an image forming apparatus makes in the course of an operation thereof from interfering with a user who is watching television. When a printer 203 receives a print command, the printer 203 performs a print job as per a normal mode if a commercial is being displayed on a digital TV 201. If what is being displayed on the digital TV 201 is not the commercial, the printer 203 suspends the print job until the commercial begins to be displayed.

Abstract: Even if a liquid is attached and solidified on a peripheral surface of a coating roller, application of the liquid on a medium is uniformly performed. At least a part of contacting member is separated from the coating roller and the coating roller is rotated in a second direction as a reverse direction to a first direction to pull out the liquid from a liquid retaining space onto the coating roller. Next, by interrupting the above separation and rotating the coating roller in the first direction, a liquid reservoir is formed in the periphery of a contacting portion between the coating roller and the contacting member.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a therapeutic agent for effectively preventing or ameliorating diseases caused by dysfunction of NOS. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating diseases associated with dysfunction of NOS, comprising as an effective ingredient, a compound of the formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each represents a hydrogen atom or, taken together with each other, represent a single bond, while R3 represents —CH(OH)CH(OH)CH3, —CH(OCOCH3)CH(OCOCH3)CH3, —CH3, —CH2OH, or a phenyl group when R1 and R2 each represents a hydrogen atom, or —COCH(OH)CH3 when R1 and R2 together represent a single bond, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A liquid application mechanism includes a liquid application unit that applies liquid to an application medium, and a liquid supply unit that supplies the liquid to the liquid application unit from a storage unit. The liquid supply unit recovers a portion of the liquid to the storage unit, the portion of the liquid being a portion that has been supplied to the liquid application unit and has not been applied to the application medium. At a bottom portion of the storage unit, a plurality of trap space sections separated from each other by ribs are formed. The trap space sections have continuous rectangular shapes, and are open upward in the direction opposite to gravity. The rib height of the trap space sections is equal to or greater than 3 mm, and the rib interval of the trap space sections is in the range from 2 mm to 10 mm.

Abstract: The invention is to provide a recording apparatus and a recording method, capable of automatically specifying a type of a recording medium by a simple and inexpensive structure, thereby automating a sheet type setting operation and avoiding an error of user in such sheet type setting operation. The apparatus is equipped with first detectors for detecting a width dimension of a recording medium, a second detector for detecting a surface characteristic of the recording medium, and a discriminator for discriminating the type of the recording medium based on the results of the first and second detectors.

Abstract: A burden on a user when changing sheets such as with an ink jet printer and the like is reduced, and the necessary stack space is secured without considering the step difference up to the mounting surface of an ejected paper tray worth of the amount of curls for sheets that easily curls such as post cards and the like. Thus, enlargement of the apparatus and increase in the manufacturing cost are suppressed, and is easily adopted for low cost type for mass consumption.

Abstract: A burden on a user when changing sheets such as with an ink jet printer and the like is reduced, and the necessary stack space is secured without considering the step difference up to the mounting surface of an ejected paper tray worth of the amount of curls for sheets that easily curls such as post cards and the like. Thus, enlargement of the apparatus and increase in the manufacturing cost are suppressed, and is easily adopted for low cost type for mass consumption.

Abstract: A technology is provided that suppresses a noise that an image forming apparatus makes in the course of an operation thereof from interfering with a user who is watching television. When a printer 203 receives a print command, the printer 203 performs a print job as per a normal mode if a commercial is being displayed on a digital TV 201. If what is being displayed on the digital TV 201 is not the commercial, the printer 203 suspends the print job until the commercial begins to be displayed.

Abstract: A composition capable of elevating blood adiponectin level and enlarging LDL particle size and thus lowering the concentration of small dense LDL in blood to thereby prevent diabetes and a heart disease such as a coronary artery disease or ameliorate the symptoms of these diseases, which originates in a natural material, shows a high safety without any side effect even in continuous intake over a long period of time, and is usable as a health food or drink. A composition comprising as the active ingredient a fermented tea extract which has an effect of elevating adiponectin level and an effect of enlarging LDL particle size.