Abstract: A separator member for a fuel cell includes: a first resin layer including a resin; and a graphite layer that is layered on the first resin layer and substantially made of graphite. The layering amount of the graphite layer is 50 g/m2 or less, and the volume resistivity of the graphite is 3 m?·cm or less.

Abstract: A game control device capable of giving at least one of a plurality of game data sets that are members of an opponent game data group to a user. A match request receiving unit receives a match request sent from a user terminal. An opponent game data group determination unit determines a plurality of game data sets as members of the opponent game data group. In a case where the match request is received, a match executing unit executes a match based on one of the game data group and the game data of the user, and the opponent game data group. In a case where the match is executed, a game data giving unit gives at least one of the plurality of game data sets that are members of the opponent game data group to the user.

Abstract: A game control device capable of giving at least one of a plurality of game data sets that are members of an opponent game data group to a user. A match request receiving unit receives a match request sent from a user terminal. An opponent game data group determination unit determines a plurality of game data sets as members of the opponent game data group. In a case where the match request is received, a match executing unit executes a match based on one of the game data group and the game data of the user, and the opponent game data group. In a case where the match is executed, a game data giving unit gives at least one of the plurality of game data sets that are members of the opponent game data group to the user.

Abstract: A lens barrel and a lens unit each include a lens drive operation member that drives a lens holding member holding a movable lens group, in an axial direction by a rotation operation of a rotating member. This lens drive operation member has a body disposed so as to be rotatable about an axis of a fixed barrel and so as not to be movable in the axial direction and connected to the rotating member by a connecting portion, and the connecting portion includes at least two connecting members, that is, a first connecting member formed integrally with the body, and a second connecting member formed separately from the body.

Abstract: A lens barrel and a lens unit each include a lens drive operation member that drives a lens holding member holding a movable lens group, in an axial direction by a rotation operation of a rotating member. This lens drive operation member has a body disposed so as to be rotatable about an axis of a fixed barrel and so as not to be movable in the axial direction and connected to the rotating member by a connecting portion, and the connecting portion includes at least two connecting members, that is, a first connecting member formed integrally with the body, and a second connecting member formed separately from the body.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a main apparatus, an image display apparatus including a display screen, a controller including an acceleration sensor, and a game executing section. The game executing section determines whether or not an acceleration signal generated is normal, based on a first half wave signal of the acceleration signal occurring in an axial direction when the controller is moved. The game executing section moves an image object based on a second half wave signal occurring subsequent to the first half wave signal and having a reversed polarity. The game executing section executes display control to move the image object back to a home position upon detecting that the second half wave signal reaches a peak. Thus, displaying the image object may be controlled according to the movement of the controller. The display control may be executed based on a normal acceleration signal without performing complicated steps.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a main apparatus, an image display apparatus including a display screen, a controller including an acceleration sensor, and a game executing section. The game executing section determines whether or not an acceleration signal generated is normal, based on a first half wave signal of the acceleration signal occurring in an axial direction when the controller is moved. The game executing section moves an image object based on a second half wave signal occurring subsequent to the first half wave signal and having a reversed polarity. The game executing section executes display control to move the image object back to a home position upon detecting that the second half wave signal reaches a peak. Thus, displaying the image object may be controlled according to the movement of the controller. The display control may be executed based on a normal acceleration signal without performing complicated steps.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vacuum-heat-insulated cooking utensil and a method of manufacturing the same. Inner and outer containers are prepared each having a tubular side wall and an end wall closing the end of the side wall. The inner container is positioned in the outer container with the respective bottoms being in contact with each other through a first brazing material, with the other ends of the side walls fitted to each other with a gap which constitutes a vacuum sealing section, and with an annular space being defined between the side walls. A second brazing material having a melting point higher than that of the first brazing material is positioned at the vacuum sealing section. An assembly of the containers and the brazing materials is placed in a vacuum furnace. The furnace is evacuated to evacuate the annular space. Temperature within the furnace is raised above the melting point of the second brazing material to melt the first and second brazing materials.

Abstract: A vacuum bottle of the electric heater type includes a body having a tubular outer shell and a tubular inner shell disposed within the outer shell to form a hermetically sealed thermal insulation vacuum space therebetween. A tubular connecting member has an open lower end and an upper end wall having an aperture formed therethrough. The upper end wall of the connecting member is fixedly hermetically secured to a lower surface of a bottom wall of the inner shell with the apertures therein in communication, and the tubular connecting member is fitted in an aperture of a bottom wall of the outer shell and fixedly hermetically secured thereto adjacent to the open lower end thereof to hold the bottom walls of the inner and outer shells in spaced sealed relation to each other. An electric heater is mounted within the inner shell for heating contents of the inner shell.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vacuum-heat-insulated cooking utensil and a method of manufacturing the same. Inner and outer containers are prepared each having a tubular side wall and an end wall closing the end of the side wall. The inner container is positioned in the outer container with the respective bottoms being in contact with each other through a first brazing material, with the other ends of the side walls fitted to each other with a gap which constitutes a vacuum sealing section, and with an annular space being defined between the side walls. A second brazing material having a melting point higher than that of the first brazing material is positioned at the vacuum sealing section. An assembly of the containers and the brazing materials is placed in a vacuum furnace. The furnace is evacuated to evacuate the annular space. Temperature within the furnace is raised above the melting point of the second brazing material to melt the first and second brazing materials.

Abstract: Disclosed is an assembly of an elongated container and a plug therefor. The container has defined therein a receiving space for contents, an opening through which the contents are filled into the receiving space and discharged therefrom, and an annular ridge formed at a location spaced from the opening toward the receiving space a predetermined distance. The annular ridge defines a throat having a circumferentially continuous, planar sealing surface extending substantially longitudinally of the container a predetermined distance. The plug is threadedly engageable with the container so as to open and close the opening by axial one end of the plug. An annular resilient sealing member carried on the other axial end of the plug is in sealing contact with the planar sealing surface with the opening being closed by the axial one end of the plug threadedly engaged with the container.

Abstract: A portable container includes a body and a collapsible handgrip mounted on a peripheral side wall of the body. The handgrip includes a link pivotally mounted on the side wall of the body at one end thereof, an elongated guide member pivotally mounted on the side wall at one end thereof, and an elongated slide member hingedly connected to the other end of the link at one end thereof and engaging the guide member for sliding movement therealong. The handgrip is movable between a contracted position wherein the hinged ends of the link and the slide member are disposed adjacent to the side wall of the body and an expanded position wherein the hinged ends are spaced away from the side wall.

Abstract: A process for producing a metal vacuum bottle composed of internal and external shells made of metal, said process comprising the steps of brazing the seamed portion formed between said two shells through a vacuum heating treatment for an assembly of the vacuum bottle accommodating a getter to be sealed therewithin, and of enhancing the vacuum degree between said shell by maintaining the temperature of activating the getter for a certain period of time.