Abstract: A gas adsorbent is placed on at least a surface of a first plate on one side in a thickness direction thereof or a surface of a second plate on one side in a thickness direction thereof. The gas adsorbent has a shape with relatively raised and lowered parts arranged alternately. The gas adsorbent is placed along a sealant that joins the first and second plates.

Abstract: A vehicle rotating electrical machine has a rotor, a stator, a cooling fan provided in an axial direction end portion of the rotor and rotated integrally with the rotor, a housing, having an air intake provided opposing the cooling fan in an axial direction end portion, an annular rib provided adjacent to the air intake, and a discharge port provided across the annular rib, that houses the rotor and the stator and rotatably supports a rotary shaft, and a stay provided on a radial direction outer periphery of the housing, wherein the annular rib has an inner diameter side inclined cylindrical face, which inclines so that a diameter thereof becomes gradually smaller toward an inner side of the housing from an axial direction outer side end face of the air intake, and a sealing portion is provided between the stay and the annular rib.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a glass panel unit including: a first panel including at least a first glass plate; a second panel arranged to face the first panel and including at least a second glass plate; a frame member formed in a shape of a frame corresponding in shape to respective peripheral portions which extend along edges of the first panel and the second panel, and bonded to the peripheral portions; and at least one spacer provided in a vacuum space between the first panel and the second panel. The at least one spacer contains a polyimide. The polyimide has an absorption edge at which an absorption index decreases in an optical absorption spectrum ranging from an ultraviolet ray to visible radiation. The absorption edge is equal to or less than 400 nm.

Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a punching step and a pillar mounting step. In the punching step, a punch punches at least one of a plurality of portions from a base material of a sheet to form at least one pillar. Each of the plurality of portions is surrounded by a corresponding one of a plurality of loop-shaped grooves in the base material. In the pillar mounting step, the at least one pillar is mounted on a surface of a first substrate including a glass pane.

Abstract: This rotary electric machine rotor includes: a Lundell core that includes a cylindrical portion, a pair of yoke portions, and a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a bobbin that is mounted around an outer circumference of the cylindrical portion; a field coil that is wound onto the bobbin in multiple layers, the field coil contacting a vicinity of roots of inner circumferential surfaces of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; and a cooling fan that supplies air to an outer circumferential surface of the field coil, wherein the field coil is formed so as to have a peaked shape in which two or more peaks line up consecutively in an axial direction, an apex portion of each of the peaks being positioned radially further outward than a root position of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a glass panel for a glass panel unit includes a melting step, a spreading step, an annealing step, a cutting step, and a spacer disposition step. The spacer disposition step is a step of disposing spacers onto a glass sheet and is performed by a spacer disposition device prior to the cutting step.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rotary electric machine that can improve productivity of a stator, and that can also suppress occurrence of corrosion of a stator core and a housing that results from scratch marks due to removal of hardened varnish by enabling a varnish to be prevented from leaking out onto housing interfitting surfaces at end surfaces of a core back portion, to eliminate a need for a trimming step.

Abstract: A glass panel unit includes: a sealing member arranged between a first panel and a second panel, which are arranged to face each other with a predetermined gap left between themselves, to hermetically bond the first panel and the second panel together; and an internal space sealed heimetically with the first panel, the second panel, and the sealing member. The glass panel unit further includes a spacer arranged in the internal space so as to be in contact with the first panel and the second panel. The spacer includes a plurality of resin layers that are stacked one on top of another in a direction in which the first panel and the second panel face each other. At least any two of the plurality of resin layers have different elastic moduli.

Abstract: A glass panel unit according to an example of the present disclosure includes a first glass panel and a second glass panel disposed to face the first glass panel. The glass panel unit includes: a seal having frame shape and hermetically binding the first glass panel and the second glass panel together; and a depressurized space surrounded by the first glass panel, the second glass panel, and the seal. The glass panel unit includes spacers between the first glass panel and the second glass panel. The spacers include a macromolecular resin material including molecular chains. Of the molecular chains, the number of molecular chains oriented in an orthogonal direction is larger than the number of molecular chains oriented in a counter direction. The orthogonal direction is a direction orthogonal to the counter direction, which is a direction in which the first and second glass panels face each other.

Abstract: A Schottky barrier diode comprises a semiconductor layer configured to include a surface and a plurality of recesses that are recessed relative to the surface; and a Schottky electrode arranged to form a Schottky contact with the surface. When the semiconductor layer is viewed from a surface side thereof, the surface is arranged continuously, and distances on the surface between adjacent recesses are substantially identical. This configuration suppresses a photoresist from being left in any unintended portion.

Abstract: A glass panel unit having an inner space at a reduced pressure and a building component including such a glass panel unit are provided such that no traces of an exhaust pipe are left on their outer surface. To achieve this, a glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a bonding step, a pressure reducing step, and a sealing step. The bonding step includes bonding together a first substrate (10) and a second substrate (20) with a first sealant (410) to create an inner space (510). The pressure reducing step includes producing a reduced pressure in the inner space (510) through an exhaust port (50) that the first substrate (10) has. The sealing step includes melting a second sealant (420) inserted into the exhaust port (50) by locally heating the second sealant (420), and deforming the second sealant (420) by pressing the second sealant (420) toward the second substrate (20), to seal the exhaust port (50) up with the second sealant (420) melted and deformed.

Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to provide a glass panel and a glass window which are configured to stably maintain a depressurized space therein even when their spacers contain a resin. A glass panel unit of an aspect of the disclosure includes: a first glass pane; a second glass pane facing the first glass pane; a frame member which has a frame shape and which the first and second glass panes are bound together through; and spacers containing a resin and disposed between the first and second glass panes. A depressurized space is provided between the first glass pane and the second glass pane. The first and second glass panes are respectively to be exterior and interior panes. The first glass pane has lower ultraviolet transmittance than the second glass pane.

Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a bonding step, an exhausting step, and a sealing step. The bonding step includes bonding together, with a sealing member, a first glass panel and a second glass panel to form an inner space. The exhausting step includes exhausting air from the inner space through an exhaust pipe detachably connected to an exhaust port.

Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a bonding step, a pressure reducing step, and a sealing step. The bonding step includes bonding together a first substrate including a wired glass pane and a second substrate including a non-wired glass pane with a first sealant in a frame shape to create an inner space. The pressure reducing step includes producing a reduced pressure in the inner space through an exhaust port that the first substrate has. The sealing step includes irradiating the second sealant with an infrared ray externally incident through the second substrate to seal the exhaust port up with the second sealant that has melted.

Abstract: A glass panel unit includes a first glass panel, a second glass panel, a sealing portion in a frame shape, and a getter. The sealing portion hemietically bonds together respective peripheral portions of the first glass panel and the second glass panel. An inner space is formed at a reduced pressure between the first glass panel and the second glass panel. The getter is arranged in the inner space. The getter is arranged in a frame region extending along the sealing portion and located within a predetermined distance from each peripheral edge of the glass panel unit, so as to be covered with a building component frame.

Abstract: A glass panel unit manufacturing method includes a bonding step, a pressure reducing step, and a sealing step. The bonding step includes bonding together a first substrate and a second substrate with a first sealant to create an inner space. The pressure reducing step includes producing a reduced pressure in the inner space through an exhaust port that the first substrate has. The sealing step includes melting and expanding a second sealant, inserted into the exhaust port, by heating the second sealant and thereby sealing the exhaust port up with the second sealant expanded to the point of coming into contact with a dam arranged in the inner space.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a glass panel unit including: a first panel including at least a first glass plate; a second panel arranged to face the first panel and including at least a second glass plate; a frame member formed in a shape of a frame corresponding in shape to respective peripheral portions which extend along edges of the first panel and the second panel, and bonded to the peripheral portions; and at least one spacer provided in a vacuum space between the first panel and the second panel. The at least one spacer contains a polyimide. The polyimide has an absorption edge at which an absorption index decreases in an optical absorption spectrum ranging from an ultraviolet ray to visible radiation. The absorption edge is equal to or less than 400 nm.

Abstract: A glass panel unit includes a first pane of glass, and a second pane of glass facing the first pane of glass with the panes of glass spaced a predetermined interval apart. The glass panel includes a seal disposed between the panes of glass and joined to them in an airtight manner, and an interior space encompassed with the panes of glass and the seal. The glass panel unit includes: a partition wall disposed in the interior space and divides the interior space into a first space as a vacuum space and a second space; an air release vent formed in a first or second pane of glass and communicates with the second space; and a blocking member provided in the air release vent.