Abstract: An aluminum alloy comprising more than 3.5% and up to 6.0% of Mg, 0.02 to 1.0% inclusive of Cu, 0.02 to 0.1% inclusive of Cr, and a remainder made up by Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein the contents of Si and Fe in the unavoidable impurities are limited to 0.05% or less and 0.05% or less, respectively, and wherein the number of intermetallic compound particles contained in the aluminum alloy and having a maximum length of 4 ?m or more is 50 particles or less per 1 mm2 of an arbitrary cross-sectional area of the aluminum alloy. An aluminum alloy is provided, which has excellent anodic-oxidation-treatability and can be used for providing an anodic-oxidation-treated aluminum alloy member having high withstand voltage properties and such excellent heat resistance that the occurrence of cracking under high temperatures conditions can be prevented.

Abstract: A method for producing a tool coated with a hard coating, the method including the following steps: applying a TiAlN coating layer onto a substrate with a first magnetron sputtering process and applying a TixSi1-xN coating layer onto the TiAlN layer with a second magnetron sputtering process, where x is smaller than or equal to 0.85 and preferably between and including 0.80 and 0. 70 whereas the second magnetron sputtering process is performed with power densities greater than 100 W/cm2 and as such is a HIPIMS process.

Abstract: A heat-resistant, austenitic cast steel having excellent machinability comprising by mass 0.4-0.55% of C, 1-2% of Si, 0.5-1.5% of Mn, 18-27% of Cr, 8-22% of Ni, 1.5-2.5% of Nb, 0.01-0.3% of N, 0.1-0.2% of S, and 0.02-0.15% of Al, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a machinability index I represented by the following formula: I=100×S+75×Al+0.75×Mn?10×C?2×Nb?0.25×Cr?0.15×Ni?1.2×N, wherein each element symbol represents % by mass of each element in the cast steel, meeting the condition of ?3.0?I?+14.0, and an exhaust member made thereof.

Abstract: A heat-resistant, cast ferritic steel having excellent machinability comprising by mass 0.32-0.48% of C, 0.85% or less of Si, 0.1-2% of Mn, 1.5% or less of Ni, 16-23% of Cr, 3.2-5% of Nb, Nb/C being 9-11.5, 0.15% or less of N, 0.05-0.2% of S, and 0.01-0.08% of Al, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and an exhaust member made thereof.

Abstract: In the outer rotor-type axial gap brushless motor of the present invention, each of a plurality of coils provided to a stator is constituted by winding a band-shaped conductor member via an insulating member such that the width direction of the conductor member runs along the axial direction of the coil, and each coil has a through passage which penetrates in the axial direction of the coil and which is included between prescribed turns in a portion of the coil that corresponds to the outer side in the radial direction of the stator relative to a core portion of the coil.

Abstract: A bus bar (1) comprises: a laminated conductive wire (20) formed by arranging side by side in the longitudinal direction a first plate-shaped conductive wire (21) formed by spirally winding stripe conductors (11, 12) mutually adjacent in the width direction while bringing the opposing inner surfaces closer to each other, and a second plate-shaped conductive wire (22) formed by spirally winding the stripe conductors (11, 12) in the direction opposite the direction of the first conductive wire (21) while bringing the opposing inner surfaces closer to each other, and overlapping these wires (21, 22) so that the outer surfaces in the width direction face each other; and terminals (30) joined to the first conductive wire (21) and the second conductive wire (22) at both ends of the laminated conductive wire (20).

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a coated cutting tool having a base material and a hard coating, in which: the hard coating is formed from a nitride or a carbonitride having an Al content of from 50 at. % to 68 at. %, a Cr content of from 20 at. % to 46 at. %, and an Si content of from 4 at. % to 15 at. %, relative to the total amount of metal (including semimetal) elements, and when the total of metal (including semimetal) elements, nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon is designated as 100 at. %, the atomic percentage (at. %) A of metal (including semimetal) elements and the atomic percentage (at. %) B of nitrogen satisfy the relationship 1.03?B/A?1.07; and, in an intensity profile obtained from an X-ray diffraction pattern or a selected area diffraction pattern of a transmission electron microscope, an intensity of a peak from the (200) plane or the (111) plane of a face-centered cubic lattice structure exhibits the maximum intensity.

Abstract: In order to provide a covered member for which unexpected galling is suppressed in the initial stages when the member is used, and which has excellent sliding properties, a covered member has a hard film on the working surface and has excellent sliding properties, said hard film including an A layer, for which an a1 layer comprising a nitride, carbonitride, or oxynitride having 30% or more of chromium in terms of atomic ratio in metal (including metalloid; the same shall apply hereinafter) component, and an a2 layer comprising a nitride, carbonitride, or oxynitride having 60% or more of vanadium in terms of atomic ratio in metal component, are alternately laminated, and a B layer on the upper layer of said A layer and comprising a nitride, carbonitride, or oxynitride having 60% or more of vanadium in terms of atomic ratio in metal component.

Abstract: A motor drive device and motor drive system according to the present invention comprise: a power source terminal; a charging and discharging unit connected in series with the power source terminal; connection terminals to be connected to each of primary and secondary excitation coils for an anti-symmetric two phase motor; and a drive control unit which has a plurality of switching elements and respectively forms first and second paths by turning these switching elements on and off. The first path is used for independently supplying power to the respective primary and secondary excitation coils from the power source terminal via the connection terminals, and the second path is used for independent regeneration of each residual energy remaining in the primary and secondary excitation coils from the respective primary and secondary excitation coils into the charging and discharging unit via the connection terminals.

Abstract: A dial includes a first deposited layer and a second deposited layer. The first deposited layer is disposed on an uneven surface and has no peak of spectral reflectance in a visible light range. The second deposited layer is on a flat surface and has a peak of spectral reflectance in the visible light range. The first deposited layer and the second deposited layer overlap with each other.

Abstract: A hard-coated tool comprising a titanium carbonitride layer formed directly on a WC-based cemented carbide substrate by a chemical vapor deposition method; the titanium carbonitride layer having a composition comprising 74-81% by mass of titanium, 13-16% by mass of carbon and 6-10% by mass of nitrogen; the titanium carbonitride layer having a structure comprising columnar crystal grains having an average transverse cross section diameter of 0.01-0.22 ?m; a layer of W diffused from the substrate to the titanium carbonitride layer having an average thickness of 30-200 nm; and the titanium carbonitride layer having an X-ray diffraction peak of a (422) plane in a 2? range of 122.7-123.7°.

Abstract: A machining condition estimating apparatus, and method, for estimating a machining condition to suppress a wear volume of a tool when conducting cutting work in a work machine are provided. For example, an analysis model presenting shapes of a tool and cutting material, may be defined, to be a target of analysis, and an initial value for use of analysis and change volume of the machining condition parameter as analysis parameters may be set up. Coordinates for tool and cutting material contact may be calculated. Moreover, a boundary movement rate, a maximum contact length, and a contact angle are calculated. A machining condition presented by the analysis parameter may also be searched and outputted.

Abstract: This heat sink has bonded on one surface a member to be bonded, and has a cooling member in contact with the other surface. The heat sink is provided with a metal plate having a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the member to be bonded, and the metal plate is provided with a center portion where the member to be bonded is bonded, and a plurality of linear peripheral slits formed in a whirl-like radial manner such that the linear peripheral slits surround the center portion.

Abstract: Liquefier includes first compression section which is driven by a superconducting motor and which compresses a substance in a gaseous state. Cooling circuit includes: second compression section which is driven by the motor when first compression section is being driven by the motor and which compresses a refrigerant; first heat exchange section which cools the refrigerant by causing heat exchange between a substance in a tank and the compressed refrigerant; second expansion section which brings the refrigerant down to or below a critical temperature of a superconducting material by expanding the cooled refrigerant; and second heat exchange section which imparts cold heat of the refrigerant to the substance by causing heat exchange between the substance in the tank and the refrigerant after cooling a superconducting magnet, and supplies the refrigerant brought down to or below the critical temperature by second expansion section to the motor and cools the superconducting magnet.

Abstract: A radar system according to the present disclosure includes a transmit antenna, a receive antenna composed of at least three receive antenna elements, a transmitter, a receiver that generates at least three first received signals by demodulating a plurality of reflected waves received by each of the receive antenna elements, a prefilter that estimates a plurality of main arrival angles representing directions of the targets using the at least three first received signals, a direction canceler that generates at least two first extracted signals by using the at least three first received signals to form nulls in eliminating arrival angles which are all the main arrival angles except an extracting arrival angle, and an image generator that analyzes Doppler frequency components around the extracting arrival angle using the at least two first extracted signals and calculates scattering-center arrival angles which each represent the arrival angle for each Doppler frequency component analyzed.

Abstract: A mobile communication terminal test device includes: test signal transmitting means (40) for transmitting, to a mobile communication terminal (50), a test signal including a plurality of radio resource regions (1 to 8) each of which is surrounded by one or more sub-frames and one or more resource blocks; and response signal receiving means (14) for receiving a response signal to the test signal from the mobile communication terminal. The test signal transmitting means transmits, to the mobile communication terminal, the test signal which includes one radio resource region for each predetermined time interval (T) and in which the position of the radio resource region in the frequency axis direction varies for each predetermined time interval.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recovering Ru complex dye from a used dye solution containing a polypyridine Ru complex as a Ru complex, the used dye solution having been discharged from a step of manufacturing a dye-sensitized solar cell, the method including the steps of: (a): filtering the used dye solution to separate and remove solid content. (b): bringing a separating solvent including an ether-based solvent indicated by a chemical formula CxH(2x+1)—O—CyH(2y+1) (x=1 to 4 and y=1 to 4, with the proviso that x+y?4) or an alkane-based solvent indicated by a chemical formula CxH(2x+2) (x=5 to 7) into contact with the used dye solution to separate the Ru complex dye.

Abstract: Provided is a so-called Lundell-type generator capable of avoiding generation of eddy current in rotor iron-cores without complicated structure. The generator includes a stator, a rotary shaft, first and second rotor iron-cores, and a rotor coil. Each rotor iron-core includes a base and rotor magnetic-pole portions extending axially from the base, the rotor coil disposed on the inside thereof. Each rotor iron-core is formed of a plurality of unit plates stacked axially. The unit plates integrally include respective basal plate portions stacked to form the bases and a plurality of magnetic—pole plate portions stacked to form the rotor magnetic-pole plate portions stacked to form the rotor magnetic-pole portions.

Abstract: A core member (2) of the disclosed reactor (Da) comprises a magnetic wire material and is arranged outside a plurality of coils (1). As the core member (2) in the reactor (Da) having this structure is a wire material and is arranged outside the plurality of coils (1), the core member (2) can be formed by the winding of the wire material, simplifying manufacturing.

Abstract: A typesetting fixing method includes: disposing a typesetting member on a front surface of a dial plate, the dial plate being made of a transparent or semitransparent resin and the typesetting member being made of an opaque or semitransparent resin having a laser absorbing property; irradiating the dial plate with a laser beam from a rear side of the dial plate while the dial plate is uniformly applied a pressure by a heat-resistant jig; and welding the typesetting member on the dial plate by absorbing the laser beam at an interface of the typesetting member and by melting at least one of the typesetting member and the dial plate by heat.