Abstract: A member for a solid-state image pickup device having a bonding plane with no gaps and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of providing a first substrate provided with a photoelectric converter on its primary face and a first wiring structure, providing a second substrate provided with a part of a peripheral circuit on its primary face and a second wiring structure, and performing bonding so that the first substrate, the first wiring structure, the second wiring structure, and the second substrate are disposed in this order. In addition, at least one of an upper face of the first wiring structure and an upper face of the second wiring structure has a concave portion, and a conductive material forms a bottom face of the concave portion.

Abstract: A vehicle battery pack capable of reducing a possibility of damage to a cooling pipe and suppressing reliability of cooling performance from being degraded. A vehicle battery pack includes two battery modules that are arranged at mutually adjacent positions; and a connecting pipe that communicates between two cooling pipes for respectively cooling the two battery modules. The connecting pipe connects in a manner to allow displacement of a relative position between the two cooling pipes.

Abstract: A vehicle battery pack capable of improving distributivity of a refrigerant to a plurality of battery modules. A vehicle battery pack includes battery modules that are arranged in alignment in a vehicle width direction; two cooling pipes that cool the battery modules when being supplied with the refrigerant; and a flow divider that divides and supplies the refrigerant to the two cooling pipes. The flow divider is arranged between two battery modules in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A battery device for a vehicle, which can be miniaturized while including ancillary instruments such as a relay device. The battery device is mounted in a lower portion of a vehicle, and including a battery case; a plurality of battery modules accommodated in the battery case and arranged such that at least some of the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels; and a first relay device that switches connection and disconnection between external electric devices and the battery modules. The first relay device is disposed on a side in a vehicle width direction of a portion where the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels.

Abstract: A vehicle battery pack capable of reducing a possibility of damage to a cooling pipe and suppressing reliability of cooling performance from being degraded. A vehicle battery pack includes two battery modules that are arranged at mutually adjacent positions; and a connecting pipe that communicates between two cooling pipes for respectively cooling the two battery modules. The connecting pipe connects in a manner to allow displacement of a relative position between the two cooling pipes.

Abstract: A vehicle battery pack capable of improving distributivity of a refrigerant to a plurality of battery modules. A vehicle battery pack includes battery modules that are arranged in alignment in a vehicle width direction; two cooling pipes that cool the battery modules when being supplied with the refrigerant; and a flow divider that divides and supplies the refrigerant to the two cooling pipes. The flow divider is arranged between two battery modules in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A vehicle battery pack capable of suppressing a variation in cooling performance for a battery module by a cooling pipe. A vehicle battery pack includes a cooling pipe in a flat plate shape that abuts a lower surface of respective one of battery modules; and an elastic urging member that urges the cooling pipe upward to make the cooling pipe abut the lower surface of respective one of the battery modules. The elastic urging member has plural elastically-deformable legs that are aligned in a longitudinal direction of the cooling pipe.

Abstract: A battery device for a vehicle, which can be miniaturized while including ancillary instruments such as a relay device. The battery device is mounted in a lower portion of a vehicle, and including a battery case; a plurality of battery modules accommodated in the battery case and arranged such that at least some of the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels; and a first relay device that switches connection and disconnection between external electric devices and the battery modules. The first relay device is disposed on a side in a vehicle width direction of a portion where the battery modules are stacked in a plurality of levels.

Abstract: A structure of an intake manifold (1) for an engine is constituted of divided pieces (10, 20, 30). The structure of the intake manifold includes a gas supply hole (53) formed in a predetermined position of an outer surface of the intake manifold, and configured to supply predetermined gas from the outside, and a gas inlet passage (51) formed in predetermined joint surfaces (10m, 20m) of the divided pieces (10, 20), and configured to guide the gas supplied through the gas supply hole to a predetermined gas inlet position (11) of an intake passage (E1).

Abstract: A magnet plate used for a rotor core of a motor, includes a magnetic pole portion being set between an outer peripheral edge of a body portion and a magnet slot and having a radial width being smaller than a radial sectional width of the permanent magnet, and a higher hardness portion being formed into a hook shape along an end corner of the magnet slot and have a smaller width than the radial sectional width of the permanent magnet.

Abstract: A structure of an intake manifold (1) for an engine is constituted of divided pieces (10, 20, 30). The structure of the intake manifold includes a gas supply hole (53) formed in a predetermined position of an outer surface of the intake manifold, and configured to supply predetermined gas from the outside, and a gas inlet passage (51) formed in predetermined joint surfaces (10m, 20m) of the divided pieces (10, 20), and configured to guide the gas supplied through the gas supply hole to a predetermined gas inlet position (11) of an intake passage (E1).

Abstract: A magnet plate used for a rotor core of a motor, includes a magnetic pole portion being set between an outer peripheral edge of a body portion and a magnet slot and having a radial width being smaller than a radial sectional width of the permanent magnet, and a higher hardness portion being formed into a hook shape along an end corner of the magnet slot and have a smaller width than the radial sectional width of the permanent magnet.

Abstract: A stator core comprises a circumferentially deformable part formed on a radially outer peripheral side of a yoke; circumferentially facing divided parts formed on a radially inner peripheral side of the yoke, each having a dividing line that is oriented in a radial direction and reaches a portion between teeth and divided surfaces that face each other without a gap; and radially facing divided parts formed at the center between the radially inner and outer sides of the yoke along the circumferential direction at the predetermined interval, and each having divided surfaces that face each other in the radial direction, and being continuous at one ends with the respective circumferentially facing divided parts. The circumferentially facing divided parts each have a compressive stress being smaller than a compressive stress acting on the circumferentially deformable part or being zero.

Abstract: Provided is an indwelling member in a living body, the member being flexible and having sufficient strength. Also provided are a stent which is flexible and has sufficient strength, an embolization member which has a high embolization effect, a vasodilator kit, and an aneurysm embolization kit. An indwelling member in a living body of the invention is a double coil wound in coiling with a primary coil formed by winding a first wire of a metal in close coiling. The metallic wire has a diameter in the range of 14 ?m to 200 ?m, inclusive, and consists of a material selected from platinum, gold, palladium, tungsten, tantalum, cobalt, rhodium, titanium, alloys thereof, stainless steel, a nickel alloy, or a molybdenum alloy.

Abstract: A stator core includes an annular yoke portion and tooth portions, wherein an outer peripheral edge of the yoke portion is attached to an inner peripheral surface of a motor case. The yoke portion includes displacement portions displaced by receiving the radially-inward pressing force from the motor case, and deformation portions deformed according to the displacements of the displacement portions to generate tensile stress so as to form tensile stress regions through which magnetic flux passes between the tooth portions and the yoke portion or so as to counterbalance compression stress generated by the pressing force from the motor case. The displacement portions perform the displacements by attaching the yoke portion to the annular member with the interference.

Abstract: Provided is a stator core for a motor capable of facilitating an assembly work and parts management without increasing the number of components while suppressing leakage of magnetic flux passing through a flange to a coil. A stator core has an annular yoke portion and tooth portions inwardly protruding from an inner periphery of the yoke portion in a radial direction, wherein at a front end of the tooth portion inwardly protruding in the radial direction, a flange portion is provided so as to face a coil wound around the tooth portion and wherein to the flange portion, a compressive residual stress portion M is provided.

Abstract: A stator core comprises a circumferentially deformable part formed on a radially outer peripheral side of a yoke; circumferentially facing divided parts formed on a radially inner peripheral side of the yoke, each having a dividing line that is oriented in a radial direction and reaches a portion between teeth and divided surfaces that face each other without a gap; and radially facing divided parts formed at the center between the radially inner and outer sides of the yoke along the circumferential direction at the predetermined interval, and each having divided surfaces that face each other in the radial direction, and being continuous at one ends with the respective circumferentially facing divided parts. The circumferentially facing divided parts each have a compressive stress being smaller than a compressive stress acting on the circumferentially deformable part or being zero.

Abstract: A valve spring device is provided with a first coil spring and a second coil spring combined in series with each other. The inside diameter (coil inside diameter) of the second coil spring is greater than the outside diameter (coil outside diameter) of the first coil spring. A part of the first coil spring including an end portion along an axis is inserted into the second coil spring, thereby forming a combined spring. The end portion of the first coil spring and an end portion of the second coil spring are connected to each other by a connecting member. The first and second coil springs are compressed along the axis as they are located in series between a cylinder head and a retainer. A shaft of a valve is passed within the coil springs.

Abstract: A damper spring device is provided with a first spring and a second spring retained by a stopper in such a manner that the second spring is compressed by a preload. The preload on the second spring is greater than a preload on the first spring. The first spring and the second spring have load-deflection characteristics such that the first spring deforms when an axial load acting in the direction of compression of the first spring is not greater than a load at which a strand of the first spring is at least partially compacted and that the first spring and the second spring deform when the axial load is greater than the load at which the strand of the first spring is at least partially compacted.

Abstract: A port is formed in a cylinder head of an engine. The port is opened and closed by a valve. A valve spring device is provided with a first spring and a second spring. The second spring is contained in a housing and held by a stopper in a manner such that it is compressed along an axis or subjected to a preload. The preload of the second spring is larger than an installation load of the first spring. An axial load acts on the springs. The valve spring device has load-deflection characteristics such that only the first spring deforms axially when the axial load is not larger than a predetermined value and that both the first and second springs deform axially when the axial is load exceeds the predetermined value.