Abstract: A terminal plate for fuel cell includes a core plate that includes a first opening portion at a position corresponding to a manifold, a cover plate that includes a second opening portion at a position corresponding to the manifold, and is arranged at least on a surface on a side of a unit fuel cell of the core plate, and a resin sheet that is interposed between the core plate and the cover plate, includes a third opening portion at a position corresponding to the manifold, and is arranged at a position facing a manifold forming area. The core plate includes a first metal plate that is arranged at a position facing a power generating area, and a second metal plate that is joined to the first metal plate, includes the first opening portion, and is arranged at a position facing the manifold forming area. Each of the cover plate and the second metal plate is made of a metal material higher in corrosion resistance than the first metal plate.

Abstract: Stacked unit cells 100 of a fuel cell each comprise a membrane electrode assembly 10, a pair of gas separators 40 and 50, and a first sealing portion 26 provided between the pair of gas separators. The fuel cell further comprises a second sealing portion provided between adjacent ones of the unit cells, a first manifold in which reaction gas flows, and a second manifold in which a coolant flows. One of the first sealing portion and the second sealing portion is an adhesive sealing portion, and another one of the first sealing portion and the second sealing portion is formed of a gasket. The adhesive sealing portion and the gasket are provided along the outer circumference of the manifold, in the fuel cell as viewed in a stacking direction. The gasket and the adhesive sealing portion are arranged in this order from a side closer to the manifold.

Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes: a metal receptor including a blade tip of the wind turbine blade; and a blade body portion connected to the metal receptor so as to be positioned on a blade-root side of the metal receptor, the blade body portion having a hollow structure and forming an airfoil shape in a blade tip region of the wind turbine blade with the metal receptor in a joint region to the metal receptor. As seen in a blade-thickness direction of the wind turbine blade, a tangent to a joint line between the metal receptor and the blade body portion at an intersection between the joint line and a leading edge of the wind turbine blade is inclined from a chordwise direction of the wind turbine blade.

Abstract: A temperature control unit has an acquisition unit that acquires first information regarding driving and stopping of a heater and second information indicating whether or not to subject a time proportional output to an SSR to autonomous control and an SSR control unit that performs time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop the heater, to the SSR.

Abstract: An on-vehicle equipment operation device includes an air-conditioning duct that has an open end through which air-conditioned air blows, a display that is disposed outside the air conditioner and configured to display an image, an image forming optical element, and at least one equipment operation switch that is disposed at a lower edge of the open end. The image forming optical element is configured to form, as a floating image near the open end of the air-conditioning duct, a real image of the image that is displayed on the display. The floating image includes at least one equipment operation icon. The at least one equipment operation switch corresponds to the at least one equipment operation icon.

Abstract: An X-ray spectrometer includes: an excitation source that irradiates a predetermined irradiation region on a surface of a sample with an excitation ray generating a characteristic X-ray; a flat plate analyzing crystal facing the irradiation region; a slit provided between the irradiation region and the analyzing crystal, the slit being parallel to a predetermined crystal plane of the analyzing crystal; a linear sensor including linear detection elements having a length in a direction parallel to the slit are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the slit; and an energy calibration unit that measures two characteristic X-rays in which energy is known by irradiating a surface of a standard sample generating the two characteristic X-rays with the excitation ray from the excitation source, and calibrates the energy of the characteristic X-ray detected by each detection element of the X-ray linear sensor based on the measured energies of the two characteristic X-rays.

Abstract: A single cell includes a linear sealing portion bonded to a pair of gas separators, the sealing portion being provided between the gas separators. A fuel cell in which a plurality of single cells is laminated includes: a gasket provided between the single cells adjacent to each other; a first manifold communicating with an inside-cell gas passage; and a second manifold communicating with an inter-cell refrigerant passage. The gasket includes a first gasket placed to surround the outer periphery of the first manifold and configured to seal the first manifold, and a second gasket configured to seal the second manifold and an inter-cell refrigerant passage. When the fuel cell is viewed from the laminating direction, the first gasket, the sealing portion, and the second gasket are placed in this order from the first manifold toward the second manifold between the first manifold and the second manifold.

Abstract: An X-ray spectrometer is provided with: an excitation source configured to irradiate excitation rays onto an irradiation area of a sample, a diffraction member provided to face the irradiation area; a slit member provided between the irradiation area and the diffraction member, the slit member having a slit extending parallel to the irradiation area and a prescribed surface of the diffraction member; an X-ray linear sensor having a light-incident surface in which a plurality of detection elements are arranged in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the slit; a first moving mechanism configured to change an angle between the sample surface and the prescribed surface, and/or a distance between the sample surface and the prescribed surface by moving the diffraction member within a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and a second moving mechanism configured to position the X-ray linear sensor on a path of characteristic X-rays passed through the slit and diffracted by the prescr

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a fuel cell includes the steps of: (a) preparing a stack and separators in a pair arranged in such a manner as to hold the stack therebetween; (b) forming a separator-bonded stack by bonding the separators in a pair and a sealing part to each other; and (c) warping a membrane electrode assembly with the bonded sealing part in a gap by reducing the temperature of the separator-bonded stack to cause thermal shrinkage of the separators in a pair, thereby moving the sealing part with the bonded separators in a pair inward.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes an operation unit operated by a driver; and a controller that causes a vehicle to turn according to a movement of the operation unit and causes a height of the vehicle to be changed. The controller causes the height of the vehicle to be changed according to an upward or downward movement of the operation unit.

Abstract: A dehydrogenation processing method for a turbine blade of a steam turbine. The method includes a step of heating the turbine blade by suppling heating steam into a casing of the steam turbine after a steam turbine plant is stopped. The heating steam supplied to the casing has a temperature that is higher than steam passing through the turbine blade during operation of the steam turbine plant. The method further includes repeating the process of supplying the heating steam into the casing a multiple of times.

Abstract: A controller of a drone includes a storage unit that stores a scene information database containing a plurality of scene information sets arranged in time series of a video, in each of the scene information sets, a relative position with respect to a vehicle in capturing a scene of the video and a duration of the scene are associated with each other, a vehicle information acquisition unit that receives vehicle information from the vehicle, a traveling position estimation unit that estimates a future traveling position of the vehicle based on the vehicle information, and a flight path calculation unit that, based on the estimated traveling position and the scene information database, calculates, for each of the scenes, a flight path that passes through the relative position with respect to the vehicle.

Abstract: An information displaying apparatus for a vehicle includes a translucent cover panel, first and second displays which are placed in erect positions located on one side of the cover panel, and imaging optical elements which are placed beside the first and second displays along a surface of the cover panel on the one side of the cover panel, and are configured to form real images of screens of the first and second displays as floating images in a region located on the other side of the cover panel.

Abstract: A conveyance control device of the present disclosure is provided with a CPU that controls a platen conveyance mechanism that conveys a platen from a preparation position of the platen to one of a plurality of printers via a pretreatment device that performs pretreatment on a cloth placed on the platen. The CPU performs determination processing of determining, on a basis of the recording medium placed on the platen, which of the plurality of printers the platen is to be conveyed to. Thus, conveyance destinations of the platens are allocated to the plurality of printers. Thus, the platen is conveyed to the printer suited to the recording medium, and a print processing volume in a certain period is therefore increased.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell including: a membrane electrode-gas diffusion layer assembly including an electrolyte membrane; a sheet member; and a pair of separators. A first separator has a first projection that protrudes toward a side opposite from where the electrolyte membrane is disposed. A second separator has a second projection that protrudes toward a side opposite from where the electrolyte membrane is disposed. When seen from a direction perpendicular to the electrolyte membrane, the first projection and the second projection overlap at least part of the electrolyte membrane; the first projection has a first overlapping portion and a first non-overlapping portion; the second projection has a second overlapping portion and a second non-overlapping portion; the first projection is shaped so as to extend in a first longitudinal direction; and the second projection is shaped so as to extend in a second longitudinal direction intersecting the first longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A conveyance control device of the present disclosure is provided with a CPU that controls a platen conveyance mechanism that conveys a platen from a preparation position of the platen to one of a plurality of printers via a pretreatment device that performs pretreatment on a cloth placed on the platen. The CPU performs determination processing of determining which of the plurality of printers the platen is to be conveyed to. Thus, conveyance destinations of the platens are allocated to the plurality of printers. Thus, the conveyance of the platens to a specific printer only is avoided, and a print processing volume in a certain period is increased.

Abstract: A fuel cell separator includes a separator main body having a first surface and a second surface, and a first seal member disposed on the first surface. When a region on the first surface of the separator main body corresponding to an electrode member disposed on the second surface is defined as a power generation region, and a region on the first surface of the separator main body corresponding to an in-cell seal member is defined as a seal region, a displacement/vibration reducing member made of polymer is disposed at a part of the seal region. The displacement/vibration reducing member includes multiple protrusions and a coupling portion. When viewed in plan view, an axis line connecting the centers of the figures of the adjacent protrusions does not coincide with a center line passing through the widthwise center of the coupling portion. The coupling portion has a gate cut mark.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copper powder which is capable of fusion bonding with a low energy laser by enabling heat to be efficiently inputted with a high absorption rate for laser irradiation and has high convenience in handling, and provides a method for manufacturing the copper powder. One embodiment of the present invention is a copper powder, having an absorption rate for light having a wavelength ?=1060 nm of 18.9% to 65.0%, and an index, which is indicated by (the absorption rate for light having a wavelength ?=1060 nm)/(an oxygen concentration), of 3.0 or more.

Abstract: An information distribution system obtains event information such as image data about an event in the past or future using a collection server or a creation server, and stores the obtained event information in a storage server. The event information such as the image data is obtained with association to a location of the event and stored. The vehicle includes an image display system. An occupant wears a wearable device which is a display unit. When the location of an event is within the field of view of the occupant, the event image is displayed through the wearable device based on the event information such as the image data.

Abstract: A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly having electrodes disposed on both surfaces of an electrolyte membrane, a gas diffusion layer stacked on one surface of the membrane electrode assembly, a resin frame assembled onto the one surface of the membrane electrode assembly so as to surround the outer periphery of the gas diffusion layer apart from the outer periphery of the gas diffusion layer, and a resin sheet disposed between the gas diffusion layer and the resin frame, and the membrane electrode assembly so as to fill a space between the inner periphery of the resin frame and the outer periphery of the gas diffusion layer.