Abstract: A non-contact torque measuring method for measuring a torque transmitted between a drive side metal rotating body and a driven side metal rotating body in a torque transmission system. The method adjacently arranges detection portions each constructed by an electromagnetic coil in relation to the metal rotating bodies having concavo-convex marker portions in a part on a circumference or an end surface in an axial direction in a non-contact manner, detects a distance between the detection portions and the metal rotating bodies and positions of the marker portions by generating an electromagnetic induction between the detection portions and the metal rotating bodies, and measuring an inductive load in the detection portions, and calculates a transmission torque value by measuring a rotating speed and a rotational phase difference of the marker portions generated in both the metal rotating bodies according to the torque transmission so as to compute.

Abstract: A titanium plate is provided in which a Vickers hardness Hv0.025 at a load of 0.245 N at a surface is 150 or less, and an average length of the profile elements RSm is 80 ?m or less and a maximum height Rz is less than 1.5 ?m, RSm and Rz being as defined in JIS B 0601: 2013. The titanium plate has good surface deformability.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method that can efficiently remove water contained in pentafluoropropane. Provided as a solution is a method comprising distilling a composition comprising pentafluoropropane and water to thereby extract pentafluoropropane with a water content higher than that of the composition as a first stream, and pentafluoropropane with a water content lower than that of the composition as a second stream.

Abstract: A titanium alloy part is characterized in that it includes, by mass %: Al: 1.0 to 8.0%; Fe: 0.10 to 0.40%; O: 0.00 to 0.30%; C: 0.00 to 0.10%; Sn: 0.00 to 0.20%; Si: 0.00 to 0.15%; and the balance: Ti and impurities, in which: an average grain diameter of ?-phase crystal grains is 15.0 ?m or less; an average aspect ratio of the ?-phase crystal grains is 1.0 or more and 3.0 or less; and a coefficient of variation of a number density of ?-phase crystal grains distributed in the ? phase is 0.30 or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a highly stable haloolefin-based composition that inhibits decomposition or oxidization. The haloolefin-based composition comprising (a) a haloolefin; (b) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFC-254eb, HFO-1243zf, HFC-245eb, HFC-245fa, HFC-245cb, HFC-236ea, HFC-236fa, HFO-1225ye, 3,3,3-trifluoropropine, HFC-23, HFC-32, HFC-125, HFC-143a, HFC-134a, FC-1216, HCFO-1233xf, HCFO-1233zd, HCFO-1232xf, HCFO-1223xd, and chloromethane; and (c) water.

Abstract: The present invention provides a solar photovoltaic installation capable of storing power while supplying power during daytime when solar radiation conditions are excellent. The solar photovoltaic installation of the invention includes at least a first solar module string 11 and a second solar module string 12 as solar module strings 10, the solar photovoltaic installation further includes at least a first storage battery array 21 and a second storage battery array 22 as storage battery arrays 20, and while power storage capacity detection means 60 detects that the second storage battery array 22 is less than a predetermined capacity and voltage detection means 50 detects voltage of more than predetermined voltage, the control means 40 connects the first solar module string 11 to a power conditioner 30, and connects the second solar module string 12 to the second storage battery array 22.

Abstract: A coil component includes: a core part including: a winding shaft; and a planar flange part provided at an axial-direction end of the winding shaft, and having a groove part provided on an exterior face thereof where a lead part led out from a conductor wound around the winding shaft into the groove part, wherein the flange part has a first recessed part provided on a first side face intersecting with the long axis of the groove part and communicated with the groove part, wherein the area of a cross section, taken in a direction parallel with the first side face, of the first recessed part, is greater than the area of a cross section, taken in a direction parallel with the first side face.

Abstract: According to a method for producing a perfluoroalkadiene compound represented by general formula (1): CF2?CF—(CF2)n-4—CF?CF2 (1), wherein n is an integer of 4 or more, the method comprising a reaction step of adding a nitrogen-containing compound to a solution of a compound represented by general formula (2): X1CF2—CFX2—(CF2)n-4—CF2X1 (2), wherein n is the same as above, X1 is the same or different and is a halogen atom other than fluorine, and X2 is a halogen atom, the perfluoroalkadiene compound can be obtained at a high yield.

Abstract: A process for producing a plate-like body with a resin frame having a decorative molding, wherein the decorative molding includes a main part and a film formed on a surface and has a design part exposed on a surface of the resin frame and an embedded part in the resin frame. The film continuously covers the design part and the embedded part. The process includes a step of mounting the decorative molding on a mold for forming the resin frame and further mounting a plate-like body, and a step of injecting a molten resin into a cavity of the mold and forming a resin frame with the decorative molding thereon into a window glass while a film at a portion located at a boundary between the design part and the embedded part is pressed against the mold by an injection pressure of the molten resin and thermally deformed.

Abstract: A method enables olefin compound production with a high productivity, and an enzyme is used in the method. Mutations involving amino acid substitution are introduced into various sites of diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase (MVD) to prepare multiple MVD variants. Then, these variants are evaluated in terms of catalytic activity for producing an olefin compound such as isoprene, and have found as a result that the catalytic activity is improved when serine at position 153 and threonine at position 209 are each substituted with a different amino acid. In addition, the catalytic activity of the variants is further improved when glycine at position 152 is further substituted with a different amino acid.

Abstract: To provide a titanium sheet excellent in formability and a method for manufacturing the same. A titanium sheet, wherein, when a carbon concentration of a base material is Cb (mass %) and a carbon concentration at a depth d ?m from a surface is Cd (mass %), the depth d (carbon concentrated layer thickness) satisfying Cd/Cb>1.5 is 1.0 ?m or more and less than 10.0 ?m or less, wherein a Vickers hardness HV0.025 at a load of 0.245 N in the surface is 200 or more, a Vickers hardness HV0.05 at a load of 0.49 N in the surface is lower than HV0025, and a difference between HV0.025 and HV0.05 is 30 or more, wherein a Vickers hardness HV1 at a load of 9.8 N in the surface is 150 or less, and wherein an average interval between cracks generated in the surface when a strain of 25% is given in a rolling direction in a bulging forming process is less than 50 ?m and a depth thereof is 1 ?m or more and less than 10 ?m.

Abstract: Mutations involving amino acid substitution were introduced into various sites of diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase (MVD), thus preparing a large number of MVD variants. Then, the variants were each evaluated in terms of a catalytic activity for production of olefin compounds such as isoprene. As a result, it was found that substitution of glycine at position with a different amino acid resulted in improvement in the catalytic activity. In addition, it was found that the MVD in which arginine at position and threonine at position in addition to the position were further substituted with different amino acids, respectively, also had the high catalytic activity.

Abstract: A plate-like body with a resin frame attached thereto for a vehicle includes two main surfaces and an end part connecting the two main surfaces, and a resin frame integrally molded to a peripheral edge area of the plate-like body; the resin frame including a main part having a plurality of inner surfaces facing the two main surfaces and the end part, and a plurality of projections obliquely projecting from the main part in a direction opposite to the plate-like body; and the resin frame having no adhesive between the peripheral edge area and an inner surface close to the projections.

Abstract: Provided is a titanium cast product made of commercially pure titanium, the titanium cast product being produced by electron-beam remelting or plasma arc melting, comprising: a melted and resolidified layer in a range of 1 mm or more in depth at a surface serving as a surface to be rolled, the melted and resolidified layer being obtained by adding one or more kinds of ?stabilizer elements to the surface and melting and resolidifying the surface. An average value of ? stabilizer element(s) concentration in a range of within 1 mm in depth is higher than ?stabilizer element(s) concentration in a base material by, in mass %, equal to or more than 0.08 mass % and equal to or less than 1.50 mass %. As the material containing the ? stabilizer element, powder, a chip, wire, or foil is used. As means for melting a surface layer, electron-beam heating and plasma arc heating are used.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ?+? titanium alloy cold-rolled and annealed sheet having a high strength and a high Young's modulus in the sheet width direction. A titanium alloy sheet in which, when the texture in the sheet plane direction is analyzed, the ratio XTD/XND between the X-ray relative intensity peak value (XTD) in directions close to the sheet width direction and the X-ray relative intensity peak value (XND) in directions close to the normal-to-sheet-plane direction on the (0002) pole figure of the ?-phase is 5.0 or more and which contains, in mass %, Fe: 0.8% to 1.5% and N: 0.020% or less and has an oxygen-equivalent Q of 0.34 to 0.55. Annealing of the titanium alloy sheet is performed at not less than 500° C. and less than 800° C. in the case where the cold rolling rate is less than 25% and at not less than 500° C. and less than 620° C. in the case where the cold rolling rate is 25% or more.

Abstract: To provide a slider-equipped window glass capable of increasing the productivity and quality, and a process for its production. A slider 24 is an integrally molded product comprising an inner layer portion 36 and an outer layer portion 38. The inner layer portion 36 is bonded to a vehicle inner surface 20F of a window glass 20, and the outer layer portion 38 is located on the vehicle inner surface side of the inner layer portion 36 and is made of a material harder than the inner layer portion 36. Further, in the outer layer portion 38, a concave engaging portion 26 to engage with an up-and-down movement guide member 22, is formed.

Abstract: To provide a holder-equipped window glass capable of increasing the quality and productivity and capable of preventing breakage of the window glass to be caused by attachment of the holder, and a process for its production. A holder main body 18 is an integrally molded product comprising an inner layer portion 26 and an outer layer portion 28. The inner layer portion 26 is constructed to be U-shaped in cross section to clamp a part of a lower edge 12B of a window glass 12 in the thickness direction of the lower edge 12B. Further, the outer layer portion 28 is located outside the inner layer portion 26, is made of a material harder than the inner layer portion 26 and is constructed to be U-shaped in cross section. This outer layer portion 28 is provided with a connecting portion 16. This connection portion 16 is projecting in a direction departing form the lower edge 12B of the window glass 12.

Abstract: In a titanium material or a titanium alloy material, in an oxide film formed on a surface of a titanium or a titanium alloy, the composition ratio of TiO (ITiO/(ITi+ITiO)×100 found from the maximum intensity of the X-ray diffraction peaks of TiO (ITiO) and the maximum intensity of the X-ray diffraction peaks of metal titanium (ITi) in X-ray diffraction measured at an incident angle to the surface of 0.3° is 0.5% or more. A titanium material or a titanium alloy material, and a fuel cell separator and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell having good contact-to-carbon electrical conductivity and good durability can be provided.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing HCFC and/or HFC by subjecting a halogenated hydrocarbon and anhydrous hydrogen fluoride to a fluorination reaction in the presence of a catalyst, whereby efficient production can be achieved, without the need to stop the production every time catalytic activity is regenerated or recovered, and without making facilities excessive. Provided as a solution therefor is a method comprising (A) subjecting a halogenated hydrocarbon and anhydrous hydrogen fluoride to a fluorination reaction in at least two reactors each in the presence of a catalyst to thereby obtain HCFC and/or HFC; and (B) while halting the reaction in at least one of the reactors, obtaining HCFC and/or HFC by the reaction in at least one other reactor.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene or 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, which is a precursor of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, in two or three reaction steps, using at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane, 2,3-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoropropane, and 1,1,2,3-tetrachloropropene as a starting material, the reaction products of at least two of the steps being supplied to the same distillation apparatus to subject the products to a separation operation simultaneously. With this method, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene or 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, which is a precursor of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, can be efficiently produced with reduced energy and equipment costs in an economically advantageous manner.