Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a capacitor and a heat dissipation member for cooling the capacitor. The capacitor and the heat dissipation member are pressed in an arranging direction in which the capacitor and the heat dissipation member are arranged. The capacitor includes a capacitor element which includes a dielectric body and a metal layer formed on a surface of the dielectric body, an electrode part connected to the metal layer and a bus bar connected to the electrode part. Part of the bus bar is interposed in the arranging direction between the heat dissipation member and the capacitor element.

Abstract: A corrugated tube made of resin includes outer grooved portions and outer ridged portions which are formed in a circumferential direction when the corrugated tube is seen from the outside. The outer grooved portions and the outer ridged portions continuously alternate in a tube-axial direction. Inner ridged portions and inner grooved portions are formed on an inner surface of the corrugated tube so as to respectively conform to the shapes of the outer grooved portions and the outer ridged portions. A cushioning portion is formed on the inner surface of the corrugated tube, and has hardness softer than that of a covering outer surface of one or multiple conductive paths accommodated in the corrugated tube.

Abstract: An electric power converter includes a semiconductor module, a reactor having a coil and a core, and a cooler for cooling the semiconductor module and the reactor. The cooler has a coolant passage member having a coolant flow path. The coil of the reactor has an exposed coil portion exposed from the core. The exposed coil portion is in contact with the coolant passage member. The core has a core end face disposed flush with the exposed coil portion, and both the exposed coil portion and the core end face are in surface contact with the coolant passage member.

Abstract: A wire harness includes plural cables, a first sheet and a second sheet. The first sheet includes a base sheet, and a self-adhesive layer formed on a whole of only first surface of the base sheet. The first sheet is wound on the plural cables so that a non-self-adhesive layer formed on a second surface, opposite to the first surface, of the first sheet is located inside. The second sheet includes a base sheet and a self-adhesive layer formed on a whole of only first surface of the base sheet. The second sheet is wound on the first sheet so that the self-adhesive layer of the first surface of the second sheet is located inside.

Abstract: An electric power converter includes a semiconductor module constituting a power conversion circuit, a capacitor electrically connected to the semiconductor module, and a cooling member for cooling the capacitor. The capacitor includes an element body provided with internal electrode, and a pair of end-face-electrodes provided on both end faces of the element body and connected to the internal electrode. The pair of end-face-electrodes are connected with a pair of bus bars, respectively, in a manner of surface contact. The capacitor is disposed in a state where one of the pair of end-face-electrodes is facing the cooling member. The end-face-electrode facing the cooling member is in contact with the cooling member via the bus bar.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible tube having a cylindrical flexible tube base that has flexibility and a resin layer that coats the flexible tube base, in which the resin layer is configured by at least two layers of a first layer that contains a specific resin and a second layer that contains a specific resin, or in which the resin layer is a single layer or multiple layers of two or more layers, and a layer A that is any of the resin layers includes polyester elastomers, and, hindered phenol compounds or hindered amine compounds.

Abstract: The present invention increases accommodation efficiency in a wireless master station for wireless slave stations, and efficiently uses wireless resources while controlling traffic. In a communication system in which a plurality of wireless slave stations 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, . . . , perform wireless communication with wireless master stations 1-1 and 1-2 directly or through another wireless slave station and which performs communication from the wireless master stations with a collection control device 3 by means of wired communication or the like. The collection control device 3 stores first through fourth threshold values a, b, c, and d in memory, and makes efficient use while suppressing traffic by performing a “connection suppression notification”, a “specific high-frequency communication stop notification”, and an “accommodation refusal notification”, and performs functionality control through stages according to the number of accommodated wireless slave stations.

Abstract: A novel organic amine salt or salt with quaternary ammonium ion of 3-{[((2E)-2-{1-[5-(4-t-butylphenyl)-4-hydroxy-3-thienyl]ethylidene}hydrazino)carbonothioyl]amino}benzoic acid having useful properties as a drug is provided. A novel organic amine or salt with quaternary ammonium ion of 3-{[((2E)-2-{1-[5-(4-t-butylphenyl)-4-hydroxy-3-thienyl]ethylidene}hydrazino)carbonothioyl]amino}benzoic acid, a method for producing the organic amine salt or the salt with quaternary ammonium ion and a platelet increasing agent.

Abstract: A communication device is provided in a wireless multi-hop network. The communication device includes a receiving unit, a transmission-offset calculating unit, and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit receives a sequence number, a divided time acquired by dividing a time width allocated for transmitting detected usage data by a division number, and the division number. The transmission-offset calculating unit calculates a remainder by dividing the sequence number received by the receiving unit by the division number and calculates a transmission offset time based on the remainder and the divided time. The transmitting unit transmits the usage data based on the transmission offset time calculated by the transmission-offset calculating unit.

Abstract: A hand-held tool, in which multiple fasteners are successively fed, is provided with: an ejection detecting portion for detecting an ejection of the fasteners; and a control portion for switching from a power saving wait mode of small power consumption to an active mode capable of executing normal processing when the ejection detecting portion detects the ejection of the fasteners, and for switching from the active mode to the wait mode when the normal processing is ended.

Abstract: Captured or input image data is converted into an image of a size of a specific number of pixels. Then, predetermined plural types of different effects are applied to image data obtained through the conversion. Several types of image data items with the applied effects are arranged and simultaneously displayed.

Abstract: A novel organic amine salt or salt with quaternary ammonium ion of 3-{[((2E)-2-{1-[5-(4-t-butylphenyl)-4-hydroxy-3-thienyl]ethylidene}hydrazino)carbonothioyl]amino}benzoic acid having useful properties as a drug is provided. A novel organic amine or salt with quaternary ammonium ion of 3-{[((2E)-2-{1-[5-(4-t-butylphenyl)-4-hydroxy-3-thienyl]ethylidene}hydrazino)carbonothioyl]amino}benzoic acid, a method for producing the organic amine salt or the salt with quaternary ammonium ion and a platelet increasing agent.

Abstract: Novel pyridazinone compounds of formula (I), which inhibit the purinergic P2X7 receptor and are useful for prevention, therapy and improvement of inflammatory and immunological diseases.

Abstract: An electric power tool “A” operates a working part 5 by repeating rotation of a motor 4 in a normal direction and in a reverse direction one or more times. The motor 4 includes a brushless motor. Sensors H for detecting a position of a rotor 15 are provided on the motor 4 so as to be advanced by an electrical angle of 30°±?° from an intermediate position between respective stator teeth 16 in a direction of the normal rotation of the rotor 15. A control part 20 for controlling the rotation of the motor 4 controls a driving signal of the motor 4 based on the results of detection by the sensors H. Moreover, the control part 20 selects a detection signal of the sensors H so that relation between the rotor 15 and the detection signal of the sensors H is equivalent in either of the normal rotation and the reverse rotation of the rotor 15.

Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed, a cabin frame surrounding a riding space, and a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed. The cargo bed can be changed between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded in a front direction into the rear riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. The screen shield is directly or indirectly supported by a swinging shaft provided on a vehicle body and is swingable between a position in the expanded state and a position in the non-expanded state.

Abstract: An electric power tool “A” operates a working part 5 by repeating rotation of a motor 4 in a normal direction and in a reverse direction one or more times. The motor 4 includes a brushless motor. Sensors H for detecting a position of a rotor 15 are provided on the motor 4 so as to be advanced by an electrical angle of 30°±?° from an intermediate position between respective stator teeth 16 in a direction of the normal rotation of the rotor 15. A control part 20 for controlling the rotation of the motor 4 controls a driving signal of the motor 4 based on the results of detection by the sensors H. Moreover, the control part 20 selects a detection signal of the sensors H so that relation between the rotor 15 and the detection signal of the sensors H is equivalent in either of the normal rotation and the reverse rotation of the rotor 15.

Abstract: An electric power tool “A” operates a working part 5 by repeating rotation of a motor 4 in a normal direction and in a reverse direction one or more times. The motor 4 includes a brushless motor. Sensors H for detecting a position of a rotor 15 are provided on the motor 4 so as to be advanced by an electrical angle of 30°±?° from an intermediate position between respective stator teeth 16 in a direction of the normal rotation of the rotor 15. A control part 20 for controlling the rotation of the motor 4 controls a driving signal of the motor 4 based on the results of detection by the sensors H. Moreover, the control part 20 selects a detection signal of the sensors H so that relation between the rotor 15 and the detection signal of the sensors H is equivalent in either of the normal rotation and the reverse rotation of the rotor 15.

Abstract: An endoscope cleaning system of one aspect of the subject matter includes: a first cleaning device configured to clean an endoscope; a second cleaning device configured to clean the endoscope according to a method different from that of the first cleaning device; and a cleaning evaluation device configured to determine whether or not a cleaning level of the endoscope cleaned by one of the first cleaning device and the second cleaning device satisfies a predetermined criterion, wherein one of the first cleaning device and the second cleaning device cleans the endoscope in accordance with a determination result of the cleaning evaluation device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communicating unit (123) that performs communication with an-external apparatus (200), a recording unit (97) that stores image information, an image processing unit (96) that performs image processing, and a control unit (91) that performs control to secure the image processing unit from the external apparatus via the communicating unit, when a request signal for performing processing of the image information is received, if the image processing unit can be secured, convert a file format by expanding the image information and compressing the image information again using the image processing unit secured and transfer the image information converted via the communicating unit, and, if the image processing unit cannot be secured, transmit an indication that the image processing unit cannot be secured and the image information before the conversion to the external apparatus via the communicating unit.

Abstract: A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from front, a cabin frame surrounding a riding space, and a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed. The cargo bed can be changed between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded in a front direction to the rear riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. The screen shield is directly or indirectly supported by a swinging shaft provided on a vehicle body and is swingable between a position in the expanded state and a position in the non-expanded state.