Abstract: A power transmission device that includes a clutch that transmits power from a motor to an axle; a first pump that is driven by power from the motor to generate and output fluid pressure; a second pump that receives and is driven by a supply of electric power to generate and output fluid pressure; a pressure regulating valve that regulates a pressure of operation fluid output from the first pump, and delivers at least a portion of operation fluid discharged in connection with the pressure regulation to a lubrication target for use as lubricant; and a switching valve that switches between a first connection state and a second connection state.

Abstract: A software behavior modeling apparatus includes: a stack information recording unit, a termination information recording unit, a stack difference information generating unit configured to generate, as stack difference information, information formed by combining information being located from an uppermost stack frame until the termination information is detected, by using the termination information recorded by the termination information recording unit, and a model generating unit configured to generate a software behavior model based on the stack difference information.

Abstract: A stabilizer bushing is provided which effectively reduces a torsional friction between a bushing body and a stabilizer bar. The stabilizer bushing includes a bushing body 16 made of a tubular elastic body, a sliding member 42 fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the tubular elastic body, and two partition members 26, 26 embedded in and bonded to a radially middle area of the bushing body 16. The partition members 26, 26 divide the bushing body 16 into an inner rubber portion 38 that is thin enough not to be elastically-deformed by a load applied thereto and an outer rubber portion 40 that is thicker than the inner rubber portion 38. Further, each of the partition members 26, 26 includes through holes 36a, 36b, 36c that are located so as to divide the partition member into a plurality of sections both in the axial and circumferential directions.

Abstract: An electromagnetic pump includes a cylinder with a stepped inner diameter with first and second inner diameters. A piston inside the cylinder, with a stepped outer diameter including first and second outer diameters slidable on the respective inner diameters, defines first and second fluid chambers. Reciprocal movement of the piston produces a greater change in volume in the first chamber than the second chamber. An electromagnetic portion moves the piston to decrease the volume of the first chamber and increase the volume of the second chamber. A biasing member moves the piston to increase the volume of the first chamber and decrease the volume of the second chamber. A first valve allows fluid to flow to the first chamber and prohibits reverse flow. A second valve embedded in the piston allows fluid to flow from the first chamber to the second chamber and prohibits reverse flow.

Abstract: An electromagnetic pump including a pump portion that includes a cylinder that is formed with an intake port and a discharge port that are in communication with a flow passage of a fluid pressure circuit, a pin groove, and a piston that through a reciprocal movement inside the cylinder suctions a fluid from the intake port and discharges the fluid from the discharge port; and an electromagnetic portion that reciprocates the piston. Inserting the pump portion inside a fluid pressure circuit with the electromagnetic portion externally exposed from the fluid pressure circuit, and inserting a pin from outside into the pin groove incorporates the electromagnetic pump inside a fluid pressure circuit, and the pin groove is formed at a position farther from an electromagnetic portion side than the discharge port.

Abstract: An electromagnetic pump including a piston that reciprocates inside a cylinder; an electromagnetic portion and a biasing member that respectively forwardly and backwardly move the piston; a support for the biasing member that defines a chamber with the cylinder and the piston; a valve incorporated into the support member that allows fluid to move from an intake port to the chamber and prohibits reverse flow; and a valve that allows the fluid to move from the chamber to a discharge port and prohibits reverse flow. The support member includes a bottomed hollow portion accommodating at least a portion of the intake on-off valve, and a hole providing communication between a bottom portion of the hollow portion on the chamber side and the chamber. The support member includes a portion that supports the biasing member, and a portion that communicates with the hole and projects from the support toward the piston.

Abstract: The process for producing alkylated aromatic compounds includes feeding raw materials including an aromatic compound, a ketone and hydrogen in a gas-liquid downward concurrent flow mode to a fixed-bed reactor packed with a catalyst thereby to produce an alkylated aromatic compound, wherein the catalyst includes a solid acid component and a metal component, the catalyst is loaded in the fixed-bed reactor such that the catalyst forms a catalyst layer, and the reaction gas flow rate defined by Equation (1) below is not less than 0.05 at an entrance of a layer containing the solid acid: ?g·ug·[?air·?water/(?g·?l)]1/2 (kgm?2s?1).

Abstract: A disclosed thermal treatment apparatus includes a supporting member where plural substrates are supported in the form of shelves; a reaction tube that accommodates the supporting member within the reaction tube, and is provided with plural gas supplying pipes arranged in a side part of the reaction tube, thereby allowing a gas to flow into the reaction tube through the plural gas supplying pipes; and a first heating part that heats the plural substrates supported by the supporting member accommodated within the reaction tube, wherein the first heating part includes a slit that extends from a bottom end to a top end of the first heating part and allows the plural gas supplying pipes to go therethrough, and wherein an entire inner surface, except for the slit, of the heating part faces the side part of the reaction tube.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer-readable storage medium for setting a print mode of a printing device. The method includes receiving, from a client device, a request to print a print job at the printing device, and determining a distance between the client device and the printing device. A print mode is corresponding to the print job is set to one of a locked print mode or an unlocked print mode based on the determined distance between the client device and the printing device. The method further includes sending the print job and the corresponding print mode setting to the printing device.

Abstract: A solenoid valve device that includes a solenoid valve; a drive circuit that drives the solenoid section; a current sensor that detects a current applied to the solenoid section; and a control unit that controls, when the solenoid valve is served as the pressure control valve, the drive circuit by performing a feedback control based on the current detected by the current sensor so that a current in accordance with an output pressure command is applied to the solenoid section, and controls, when the solenoid valve is served as the solenoid pump, the drive circuit without performing the feedback control so that a pump current is applied to the solenoid section.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus and method capable of reducing a measurement error in a measurement result of the surface potential of an electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of an image bearing member. The measurement error occurs under the influence of an electric field generated from a pre-exposed area. Consequently, miniaturization of an image forming apparatus and consistent print quality can be achieved. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming control section for determining an error correction value corresponding to the charge state of a latent image on the basis of relationships between charge states of the latent image and error correction values which have been prepared in advance, computing an error corrected potential measurement value using the error correction value and a potential measurement value, and controlling the image forming apparatus on the basis of the error corrected potential measurement value.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cylindrical member having anti-slip projections formed on axial end faces, the method comprising the steps of: employing a roller die, which is provided with a circumferential die groove of annular form extending through a medial section in a generatrix direction of a die face defined by an integral tapered outside peripheral face, and with a plurality of sloping die grooves extending in a tapered slope direction of the die face situated to both large-diameter and small-diameter sides of the circumferential die groove; providing plastic working to the axial end face with the small-diameter side of the roller die facing towards an inner peripheral side of the cylindrical member and with the large-diameter side facing towards an outer peripheral side, by pushing the die face against the axial end face while rotating circumferentially; and forming simultaneously an annular water barrier projection and the anti-slip projections.

Abstract: The invention provides an oral preparation or a chewing gum comprising an organic acid and/or inorganic acid and a fluoride ion supplying compound, wherein a light scattering layer is formed inside enamel of the teeth when the oral preparation or the chewing gum is applied to teeth. An internal tooth colored layer in the enamel is masked by the light scattering layer, and a white appearance is imparted to the teeth.

Abstract: A tin oxide particle having at least two diffraction peaks at 2? (deg) of 9±1° and 28±1° in XRD measurement by Cu/K? radiation. The tin oxide particle preferably shows diffraction peaks at 2? (deg) of 19±1°, 48±1°, and 59±1°. The tin oxide particle preferably has electroconductivity. The tin oxide particle is preferably produced by mixing an aqueous solution containing tin (II) and a hydroxyl-containing organic compound in a heated condition with an alkali.

Abstract: An anti-vibration bush has a pair of intermediate members harder than a main rubber elastic body, circumferentially extending for a predetermined length, and provided radially opposite to each other radially between an inner shaft member and an outer tubular member. The intermediate members are embedded in and attached to the main rubber elastic body. An axial size of an end surface on the inner shaft member side of each of the intermediate members is larger than an axial size of an end surface on the outer tubular member side of each of the intermediate members.

Abstract: A fluid filled cylindrical vibration damping device having a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting an inner shaft member and an intermediate cylindrical member, wherein base wall portions of either of a pair of pocket portions are constituted by the main rubber elastic body to actively rise opposing positive/negative pressure fluctuations in a pair of fluid chambers at times of vibration input across the inner shaft member and the outer cylindrical member; a low-frequency orifice passage and a high-frequency orifice passage are provided; and the high-frequency orifice passage is provided in an aperture section thereof leading to at least one of the pair of fluid chambers with a moveable film adapted to limit fluid flow through the high-frequency orifice passage on the basis of displacement and/or deformation thereof.

Abstract: A piston is slidably provided in a cylinder and partitions a first pump chamber, and a second pump chamber connected to an object to be operated. A first on-off valve is provided between the first pump chamber and the outside. A second on-off valve is provided in a connecting flow passage that connects the first pump chamber and the second pump chamber to each other. When the piston is moved forward by an electromagnetic force of a solenoid portion, a capacity of the first pump chamber decreases, and a capacity of the second pump chamber increases. When the piston is moved backward by a biasing force of a spring, the capacity of the first pump chamber increases, and the capacity of the second pump chamber decreases. A pressure receiving area of the front face of the piston is larger than that of the back face thereof.

Abstract: A stabilizer bushing is provided which effectively reduces a torsional friction between a bushing body and a stabilizer bar. The stabilizer bushing includes a bushing body 16 made of a tubular elastic body, a sliding member 42 fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the tubular elastic body, and two partition members 26, 26 embedded in and bonded to a radially middle area of the bushing body 16. The partition members 26, 26 divide the bushing body 16 into an inner rubber portion 38 that is thin enough not to be elastically-deformed by a load applied thereto and an outer rubber portion 40 that is thicker than the inner rubber portion 38. Further, each of the partition members 26, 26 includes through holes 36a, 36b, 36c that are located so as to divide the partition member into a plurality of sections both in the axial and circumferential directions.

Abstract: A mitotic kinesin Eg5 inhibitor which comprises a thiadiazoline derivative represented by the general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient: [wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom and the like, R2 represents a hydrogen atom, —C(?W)R6 (wherein W represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and R6 represents substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl and the like) and the like, R3 represents —C(?Z)R19 (wherein Z represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and R19 represents substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl and the like) and the like, R4 represents substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl and the like, and R5 represents substituted or unsubstituted aryl and the like] and the like are provided.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus and method capable of reducing a measurement error in a measurement result of the surface potential of an electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of an image bearing member. The measurement error occurs under the influence of an electric field generated from a pre-exposed area. Consequently, miniaturization of an image forming apparatus and consistent print quality can be achieved. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming control section for determining an error correction value corresponding to the charge state of a latent image on the basis of relationships between charge states of the latent image and error correction values which have been prepared in advance, computing an error corrected potential measurement value using the error correction value and a potential measurement value, and controlling the image forming apparatus on the basis of the error corrected potential measurement value.