Abstract: Provided is a tubular body used for a power transmission shaft made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The tubular body is provided with a cylindrical main body portion, and a second connection portion continuous with an end portion of the main body portion and to which a stab shaft is joined. The main body portion is formed with a weak portion which fails when a load input in the direction of an axial line exceeds a predetermined value. A linear rupture portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the weak portion. In the present configuration, cost reduction and weight reduction of the tubular body are made possible, and the tubular body fails infallibly when a predetermined load is input to the tubular body in the direction of the axial line.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a tube body made of fiber-reinforced plastic and used in a power transmission shaft is provided and the method includes: a generating step of disposing an uncured fiber-reinforced resin on a cavity surface of a mold and generating a resin body in a cylindrical shape; and a curing step of supplying a fluid inside the resin body and curing the resin of the resin body.

Abstract: A tube for a power transmission shaft is made of fiber-reinforced plastic, rotated to transmit power, and includes a main body in a shape of cylinder about an axis, wherein the main body has an outer diameter thereof gradually decreasing from a central portion thereof toward both ends thereof, and has a thickness thereof gradually decreasing from said both ends toward the central portion.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a plurality of wiring layers, a component mounting part on which an electronic component can be mounted, and a component non-mounting part on which an electronic component cannot be mounted. A portion located in the component non-mounting part of one wiring layer of the plurality of the wiring layers includes a plurality of first through-holes having an elongated shape as seen from above and aligned with predetermined intervals with longitudinal directions of the first through-holes being faced toward a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the wiring substrate.

Abstract: To obtain a muscle modifier capable of causing a qualitative change in muscle fibers of an administered individual by oral administration to a human or animal individual. A muscle modifier containing at least one of either bacterial body of complex bacteria NITE BP-1051 and complex bacteria ATCC PTA-1773, a separated, extracted, replicated or processed product derived from the bacterial body or the fermentation product as an active ingredient, or at least one of Bacillus hisashii NITE BP-863, or an extracted, replicated or processed product derived from the bacterial body as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A controller constitutes a control device for continuously variable transmission for executing a feedback control of a transmission so that an actual speed ratio reaches a target speed ratio. The controller includes a first phase lead compensator and a second phase lead compensator configured to perform phase lead compensation of a feedback primary command pressure, and a peak value frequency determination unit configured to change a peak value frequency according to a speed ratio.

Abstract: A press sensor that includes a board, an adhesive material, and a sensor unit on a first main surface of the board with the adhesive material interposed therebetween. When an elastic modulus of the board is E1, an elastic modulus of the adhesive material is EA, and an elastic modulus of the sensor unit is ES, EA<ES and EA<E1.

Abstract: A titanium composite material 1 is provided that includes: an inner layer 5 consisting of a commercially pure titanium or a titanium alloy; an outer layer 3 formed on at least one surface of the inner layer 5 and having a chemical composition that is different from a chemical composition of the inner layer 5; and an intermediate layer formed between the inner layer 5 and the outer layer 3 and having a chemical composition that is different from the chemical composition of the inner layer 5. The thickness of the outer layer 3 is 2 ?m or more, and occupies no more than 40% of the overall thickness per side. The thickness of the intermediate layer is 0.5 ?m or more. Despite being inexpensive, this titanium composite material has desired characteristics.

Abstract: A boost converter control method in one aspect of the present invention is the control method of the boost converter that boosts a voltage input from a power supply and supplies a boosted voltage to a load-side. The control method of the boost converter is securing an output electric power required according to an operation point of a motor connected to the load-side, calculating a lower limit voltage value at which the output voltage of the boost converter does not oscillate, setting a target output voltage of the boost converter to a value equal to or higher than the lower limit voltage, and controlling the boost converter so as to output a voltage according to the target output voltage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel sulfated polysaccharide having anticoagulant activity. Specifically, the present invention provides a polysaccharide that includes a repetitive structure of a disaccharide unit composed of a hexuronic acid (HexA) residue and a ?-D-glucosamine (GlcN) residue and having 13% or higher of a 3-O-sulfation rate in GlcN residues.

Abstract: A titanium foil or a titanium sheet is produced by electrodeposition from molten salt using constant current pulse, the method comprising: forming an electrodeposited titanium film on a surface of a cathode electrode made of glassy carbon, graphite, Mo, and Ni, and separating thereafter the electrodeposited titanium film from the cathode electrode by performing one or both of applying an external force to the electrodeposited titanium film and removing the cathode electrode. This enables the electrodeposited titanium film electrodeposited on the cathode electrode to be peeled from the cathode electrode simply and at low cost.

Abstract: A resin-made fuel tank mounting structure for construction machine is provided that provides a tank capacity without significantly affecting the layouts of other components and easily achieves assembling quality required for the resin-made fuel tank. A resin-made fuel tank mounting structure for mounting resin-made fuel tank on a construction machine including stepwise maintenance steps having plurality of treads and connecting a body floor on body frame and maintenance floor arranged above the body floor, wherein stepwise portion constituting a part of a plurality of treads of maintenance steps is formed on resin-made fuel tank, and horizontal surface of first bracket for fixing resin-made fuel tank onto the body floor is used as the lowest tread on the body floor of the plurality of treads.

Abstract: A control method of a continuously variable transmission mounted on a vehicle includes performing advance compensation in a speed ratio control system of the continuously variable transmission, and making an advance amount according to a vibration frequency of torsional vibration of an input shaft of the continuously variable transmission which is the advance amount of the advance compensation variable in accordance with an operation state of the vehicle. A feedback gain of speed ratio control of the continuously variable transmission performed in the speed ratio control system is variable in accordance with an operation state of the vehicle. When the advance amount is made variable, the advance amount is made variable in accordance with the feedback gain.

Abstract: A method for producing a hot-rolled titanium plate includes, [1] melting at least one part of the side surface of the titanium slab by radiating a beam or plasma toward the side surface, not toward the surface to be rolled, and thereafter causing re-solidification to form, in the side surface, a layer having grain diameter of 1.5 mm or less and a depth of 3.0 mm or more from the side surface; [2] performing a finishing process on the surface to be rolled of the titanium slab in which the layer is formed, to thereby bring a slab flatness index X to 3.0 or less; and [3] subjecting the titanium slab after the finishing process to hot rolling under a condition in which a length of an arc of contact of a roll L in a first pass of rough rolling is 230 mm or more.

Abstract: An antibacterial device that includes a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode on the substrate, and a protective layer covering the first electrode and the second electrode and having a first surface opposing of the substrate and a second surface opposite the first surface. Further, the first electrode and the second electrode are arranged such that the protective layer has an electric field strength on the second surface thereof of 150 kV/m or more when a voltage is applied to the first electrode or the second electrode.

Abstract: A rotation operation detection mechanism that includes a housing, an operation surface disposed on a first main surface of the housing, operation units formed integrally with the housing and protruding on the operation surface side, and a sensor that detects a stress generated in the housing when the operation units are rotated.

Abstract: Provided is an ?+? titanium alloy hot-rolled sheet consisting of, in mass %, Al: 4.7 to 5.5%, Fe: 0.5 to 1.4%, N: less than or equal to 0.03%, Si: 0.15 to 0.40%, a ratio of Si/O: 0.80 to 2.80, [O]eq in Expression (1): more than or equal to 0.13% and less than 0.25%, and the balance: Ti and impurities. In a case where an ND direction represents a normal direction of the hot-rolled sheet, a TD direction represents a sheet-width direction of the hot-rolled sheet, a c-axis orientation represents a normal direction of a (0001) plane in an ? phase, XND represents a strongest intensity among X-ray (0002) reflection relative intensities of crystal grains in which the c-axis orientation is in a range of 30° from the ND direction, and XTD represents a strongest intensity among intensities in which the c-axis orientation is in a range of ±10 degrees in the TD direction, XTD/XND is more than or equal to 4.

Abstract: The controller performs shift control of the transmission such that an actual pressure of a primary pressure becomes an indicating pressure. The controller includes a phase advance compensator which performs advance compensation of the indicating pressure, and a setting unit which sets an indicating pressure on which the advance compensation is performed by the phase advance compensator as the indicating pressure, in accordance with at least one of a rotation speed of a primary pulley, an input torque to a secondary pulley, a speed ratio, or a changing rate.

Abstract: A detection device includes a panel having opposed main surfaces including an operation surface and a rear surface. A support structure is located on at least one of the main surfaces and prevents warping of the panel while permitting the operation surface to be deformed in response to a pressing operation applied to the operation surface. A sensor for sensing the pressing operation applied to the operation surface is provided on one of the main surfaces at a location where at least a portion of the sensor does not overlap the support structure in plan view.

Abstract: A display device includes a casing (11) an operation plate, a piezoelectric sensor, a controller, and a display. The piezoelectric sensor includes a piezoelectric film, an optically clear adhesive, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of first wiring lines, a plurality of second electrodes, a second wiring line, a pair of substrates and a reception circuit. The piezoelectric sensor is bonded to a surface of the operation plate on a side opposite to an operation surface. The plurality of first wiring lines includes a region, which overlaps one of the piezoelectric film and the plurality of second electrodes but does not overlap either the piezoelectric film or the plurality of second electrodes at the same time when a first surface is viewed from a front. The region is provided between the second electrodes when the first surface is viewed from the front.