Abstract: The present invention achieves an improvement in the power generation capacity of a general purpose engine provided for a power generation application while realizing reductions in the weight and size thereof. An optional external apparatus can be attached to one shaft part of a rotary shaft, and an axial gap type motor/generator constituted by power generating rotors (inner and outer rotors) and a stator is attached integrally to another shaft part of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: The present invention achieves reductions in the weight and size of a general purpose engine provided for a power generation application. An optional external apparatus can be attached to one shaft part of a rotary shaft, and an axial gap type motor/generator constituted by a power generating rotor (inner rotor) and a stator is attached integrally to another shaft part of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal structure. The terminal structure includes: a terminal having: a conductor layer containing at least one metal selected from gold, silver, and copper; a first layer containing nickel and phosphorus, laid on the conductor layer; a second layer having a smaller atomic ratio of nickel to phosphorus than the first layer and containing Ni3P, laid on the first layer; a third layer containing a first intermetallic compound of an Ni—P—Sn type, laid on the second layer; and a fourth layer containing a second intermetallic compound of an Ni—Cu—Sn type, laid on the third layer; and a solder layer on the fourth layer of the terminal. Ra2 is larger than Ra1, where Ra1 is a surface roughness of the third layer on the second layer side and Ra2 is a surface roughness of the third layer on the fourth layer side.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal structure and an electronic device having the terminal structure. The terminal structure includes: a terminal having: a conductor layer containing at least one metal selected from gold, silver, and copper; a first layer containing nickel and phosphorus, laid on the conductor layer; a second layer having a smaller atomic ratio of nickel to phosphorus than the first layer and containing Ni3P, laid on the first layer; and a third layer containing a first intermetallic compound of an Ni—Cu—Sn type, laid on the second layer; and a solder layer on the third layer of the terminal. A second intermetallic compound of an Ni—P—Sn type partly covers a surface of the second layer on the third layer side and a maximum thickness of the second intermetallic compound in a lamination direction is from 0.05 to 0.7 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides a coating 10 provided on a conductor 20, the coating 10 has a first layer 12 containing palladium and a second layer 14 containing gold from the conductor 20 side, the first layer 12 has a first region 31 on the conductor 20 side and a second region 32 arranged nearer to the second layer 14 than the first region 31, and the second region 32 has a higher phosphorus concentration than the first region 31.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rare-earth sintered magnet 100 containing an R-T-B-based alloy and a nitride of a transition element, while the nitride is distributed preferentially to a surface part. (R, T, and B indicate a rare-earth element, at least one of iron and cobalt, and boron, respectively.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cell capable of efficiently producing scyllo-inositol from myo-inositol and a simple method of manufacturing scyllo-inositol using the cell. The above-mentioned object is achieved by a Bacillus subtilis cell, in which a function of a protein having a scyllo-inositol dehydrogenase activity is lost, and the manufacture of scyllo-inositol using the cell, based on a novel finding that the protein having a scyllo-inositol dehydrogenase activity and a protein having a 2-keto-myo-inositol ketoreductase function are present in Bacillus subtilis.

Abstract: Light source device, including an alternating current high-pressure mercury lamp having a pair of opposed electrodes within a spherical light-emitting part containing at least 0.15 mg/mm3 of mercury and 10?6 ?mol/mm3 to 10?2 ?mol/mm3 of halogen, and cylindrical hermetically sealed portions extending from both ends of the light-emitting part. External leads protrude from the ends of the light-emitting part. A reflecting mirror has a concave reflecting part surrounding the light-emitting part and a cylindrical neck part. An adhesive fills a periphery one of the hermetically sealed portions in the area of the external leads in a manner fulfilling the relationship L1/R?0.5 where L1 (mm) is the length along the hermetically sealed portion filled with an adhesive and R (mm) is the diameter of the hermetically sealed portions. Feed wires connect to the external leads and openings for the feed wires can be formed in the reflecting part with flexible tubes between them.

Abstract: In a laser radar apparatus, a laser beam generator that generates a laser beam and an optical detector that detects reflected light that has been reflected by an object in a field to be observed. A deflection performing means, provided with one or more deflection means each rotatable on a given central axis thereof, for enabling the deflection means to deflect the laser beam to the field and to deflect the reflected light toward the optical detector. A drive means driven to rotate the deflection means. A direction changing means changes a direction of the laser beam from the deflection means is changed in a direction of the central axis. A control means controls an operation of the direction changing means.

Abstract: A metal magnet 10 including a magnet body 12 and a coating layer 14 over the magnet body 12, in which the coating layer 14 has a Martens hardness of 2000 N/mm2 or more and an elastic resilience of 25% or less, and a motor including the metal magnet 10.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a mass mail detection device that eliminates the need for preparation of rules or learning in advance and operates at a high speed. Electronic mail collecting means analyzes the electronic mail delivery protocol that flows on the network, and extracts an electronic mail main text from the electronic mail traffic that flows on the network. Next, characteristic quantity conversion means calculates a number of hash values from the electronic mail main text, as the characteristic quantity of the mail. Finally, mass mail detection means compares the newly received electronic mail with the stored past electronic mails, and determines the similarity in accordance with a specific standard. If determined as being similar, the new mail is determined as a candidate for a mass mail (similar mails), and a prescribed number or more of similar mails are determined as a mass mail.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method which enables an early stage detection of an adenoma or cancer by gene expression analysis of a biomarker in a readily collectable sample. Specifically disclosed is a method for detecting an adenoma or cancer, which comprises the steps of: measuring the quantity of a sequence constituting at least one housekeeping gene or an expression product thereof contained in a body fluid sample or an excrement sample collected from an examinee; and calculating the concentration of the sequence in the sample.

Abstract: An electric bush cutter includes an electric motor, which rotates a cutting edge through a centrifugal clutch, and an operating unit capable of adjusting rotational speed of the electric motor in accordance with an operation amount of the operating unit. A starting region including a rotational speed range from a stopped state of the electric motor to fastening of the centrifugal clutch, a common-use region corresponding to a rotational speed range suitable for bush-cutting by the electric bush cutter, and a transition region corresponding to a rotational speed range of the electric motor from the starting region to the common-use region are set. A rate of change in the rotational speed of the electric motor with respect to the operation of the operating unit in the transition region is greater than those in the starting region and common-use region.

Abstract: An integrated database system comprises a plurality of database systems connected to one another through a network, each of the plurality of database systems managing its own stored data independently of the other database systems and accessing the stored data in accordance with an access request, and an integrated database unit connected to the network. The integrated database unit includes a directory database which stores a correspondence between each of the data stored in the plurality of database systems and a database system in which each of the data is stored, a directory control unit which acquires, by using the directory database, directory information corresponding to target data of the accepted access request, a database identifying unit which identifies a database system, and a database control unit which issues, on the basis of the acquired directory information, an access request to the database system having the target data of the accepted access request.

Abstract: A portable power working machine includes a drive unit disposed in a motor housing connected to a proximal end of an operating arm. The drive unit rotates a cutting blade at a distal end of the operating arm. The motor housing has an inlet and an outlet for cooling air in front and rear sections, respectively. The drive unit includes an electric motor disposed near the front end of the motor housing, a cooling fan disposed near the rear end of the motor housing and connected to an output shaft of the electric motor, and a heat sink disposed between the cooling fan and the electric motor so as to extend from the electric motor. The cooling air drawn in through the inlet by the cooling fan is guided through a gap between the drive unit and an inner surface of the motor housing and is discharged through the outlet.

Abstract: A light source device, including an alternating current high-pressure mercury lamp having a pair of electrodes opposite each other with a spherical light-emitting part having at least 0.15 mg/mm3 of mercury and halogen at 10?6 ?mol/mm3 to 10?2?mol/mm3, and cylindrical hermetically sealed parts extending from both ends of the light-emitting part. External leads protrude from the ends of the light-emitting part for receiving alternating current. A reflecting mirror having a concave reflecting part surrounds the light-emitting part and a cylindrical neck part. An adhesive for securing the mercury lamp and the reflecting mirror fills a periphery of the hermetically sealed parts of the mercury lamp. The distance L2 (mm) from a center in between the electrodes to the adhesive is set at a value of one of 16 mm or less and 20 mm or greater.

Abstract: The present invention achieves reductions in the weight and size of a general purpose engine provided for a power generation application. An optional external apparatus can be attached to one shaft part of a rotary shaft, and an axial gap type motor/generator constituted by a power generating rotor (inner rotor) and a stator is attached integrally to another shaft part of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: A general purpose engine is provided with an engine main body, a rotary shaft, and an axial gap type motor/generator. The rotary shaft is rotated by a driving force of the engine main body. The rotary shaft includes a first shaft part disposed on one side portion of the engine main body and a second shaft part disposed on another side portion of the engine main body. The axial gap type motor/generator is attached integrally to the second shaft part. The axial gap type motor/generator is provided with a power generating rotor that rotates integrally with said rotary shaft, and a stator that is attached to the engine main body. The stator is disposed on a side closer to the engine main body than the power generating rotor and at a remove from the power generating rotor.

Abstract: The present invention achieves an improvement in the power generation capacity of a general purpose engine provided for a power generation application while realizing reductions in the weight and size thereof. An optional external apparatus can be attached to one shaft part of a rotary shaft, and an axial gap type motor/generator constituted by power generating rotors (inner and outer rotors) and a stator is attached integrally to another shaft part of the rotary shaft.

Abstract: In an apparatus, a collimated-beam irradiating unit irradiates on the target a substantially collimated beam with a size thereon. A first pickup unit causes the photodetector to pick up through the imaging optics a first image of the target while the substantially collimated beam is being irradiated on the target by the collimated-beam irradiating unit. A measuring unit measures size information indicative of the size of the collimated beam being irradiated on the target based on the picked-up second image. A distance determining unit determines a distance between the apparatus and the target based on the measured size information of the collimated beam.