Abstract: A cylinder head cover that prevents the gas outlet for the blow-by gas from being cooled by structural improvements so that the gas outlet does not freeze or become clogged in a cold condition. A cylinder head cover includes: a gas passage through which blow-by gas from a crankcase passes; and a gas outlet portion protruding upward from a head cover upper wall. The gas outlet portion includes a protruding case portion bulging upward from the head cover upper wall so as to form an outlet passage through which blow-by gas passes, and an air layer is formed outside the outlet passage in the protruding case portion.

Abstract: An oil cooling structure of an engine is provided that is capable of enhancing cooling performance of oil while preventing an increase in number of components or an increase in required space from being involved as much as possible. In an oil cooling structure of an engine in which a transmission case is attached to one end wall of an engine body, and a transmission mechanism for an accessory drive is provided in the transmission case, the transmission case is formed into a potlid-shaped body having a plurality of rib walls along a front-rear direction, and is attached to an engine front wall with an engine cooling fan, and case inner chamber portions partitioned by the rib walls in the transmission case are configured as a transporting passage of oil circulated by an oil pump.

Abstract: In order to provide a flow rate control apparatus capable of reducing noise while reducing delay, the flow rate control apparatus includes: a fluid resistor provided in a flow path; a downstream valve provided downstream of the fluid resistor; and a downstream pressure sensor provided between the fluid resistor and the downstream valve. The apparatus calculates a resistor flow rate through the fluid resistor; the time change amount of the downstream pressure; on the basis of the resistor flow rate, the difference between the resistor flow rate and the time change amount of the downstream side pressure, and a weighting factor, calculates a weighted average to estimate a valve flow rate through the downstream valve; and, on the basis of the deviation between a set flow rate and the valve flow rate, controls the downstream side valve, in which the weighting factor is configured to be changeable.

Abstract: In order to provide a flow rate control apparatus capable of reducing pressure loss due to a downstream valve while enhancing responsiveness in flow rate control, a controller is designed to control the downstream valve on the basis of a flow rate deviation when a valve opening of the downstream valve is smaller than a predetermined valve opening. The controller is designed to control an upstream valve on the basis of the flow rate deviation when the valve opening of the downstream valve is the predetermined valve opening or more.

Abstract: A flow rate control apparatus is provided which enables high speed response particularly in a transient response state, such as when a target flow rate falls. The flow rate control apparatus includes: a valve provided with a position sensor to measure an opening degree and disposed in a flow channel; a flow rate sensor disposed upstream of the valve and provided with a restrictor; a first pressure sensor disposed downstream of the restrictor and disposed upstream of the valve; a second pressure sensor disposed downstream of the valve; a storage section to store a characteristic map indicating a relationship between at least the opening degree of the valve, a differential pressure before and after the valve, and a flow rate of a fluid passing through the flow channel; and a valve control section to control the valve so that the flow rate reaches an accepted target flow rate.

Abstract: There is provided a highly conductive and good silicon thin film which is obtained by applying a coating-type polysilane composition prepared by use of a polysilane having a large weight average molecular weight to a substrate, followed by baking. A polysilane having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 8,000. The polysilane may be a polymer of cyclopentasilane. A silicon film obtained by applying a polysilane composition in which the polysilane is dissolved in a solvent to a substrate, and baking the substrate at 100° C. to 425° C. The cyclopentasilane may be polymerized in the presence of a palladium catalyst supported on a polymer. The palladium catalyst supported on a polymer may be a catalyst in which palladium as a catalyst component is immobilized on a functional polystyrene. The palladium may be a palladium compound or a palladium complex.

Abstract: There is provided an engine capable of reducing oil consumption. The engine includes a cylinder head, a cylinder head cover mounted above the cylinder head, a rocker arm covered by the cylinder head cover, and a breather chamber provided inside the cylinder head cover. As a front-rear direction is defined by a longitudinal direction of the cylinder head cover, the breather chamber has a blow-by gas inlet at one side in the front-rear direction, a blow-by gas outlet at another side in the front-rear direction, and an oil discharging guide chamber at an intermediate part in the front-rear direction. The blow-by gas inlet is opened on a bottom wall of the breather chamber, and a peripheral wall of the oil discharging guide chamber is protruded downwardly from the bottom wall of the breather chamber toward between the rocker arm provided at a side of the blow-by gas outlet and the blow-by gas inlet.

Abstract: In order to provide a flow rate control apparatus that estimates a flow rate actually flowing at a control point without a large amount of noise, there are provided a fluid resistor that is provided on a flow path, a downstream-side valve that is provided on a downstream side of the fluid resistor, a resistance flow rate measurement mechanism that measures a resistance flow rate that flows through the fluid resistor, and flows into a volumetric space located on the flow path between this fluid resistor and the downstream-side valve, a subject flow rate estimation part that estimates a valve flow rate based on the flow rate characteristics stored in the flow rate characteristics storage part, and a flow rate control unit that controls the downstream-side valve based on a set flow rate, and on the valve flow rate estimated by the subject flow rate estimation part.

Abstract: An engine with an EGR device includes an engine case, and an EGR pipe that introduces an EGR gas into an intake path. The EGR pipe is arranged to pass through an inside of the engine case. A part of the EGR pipe in the engine case is arranged to face a cooling water path in the engine case. The engine case is defined by a cylinder head. The cooling water path is arranged to surround a whole circumference of the EGR pipe.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising a traffic line information generation unit configured to generate, based on information provided from an image capturing apparatus arranged in a store, traffic line information in the store of a customer who visits the store, an acquisition unit configured to acquire purchased product information associated with a product purchased by the customer in the store, a purchase information generation unit configured to generate purchase information based on the purchased product information by associating the traffic line information and the purchased product with the customer, and a display information generation unit configured to generate, based on the purchase information, display information for displaying information about one of a customer and a product in association with a time taken to select the purchased product and a selection order of the purchased product.

Abstract: In order to provide a fluid device that makes it possible for operation command signals other than existing operation command signals to be received without a software modification having to be implemented in an already constructed system, in a fluid device that measures or controls physical quantities of a fluid, there are provided a command signal receiving unit that receives a predetermined plurality of types of operation command signals, and also command signal modes, which are values thereof or time series variations of the values thereof, and a command signal recognition unit that, when the command signal mode of a predetermined operation command signal received by the command signal receiving unit falls outside predetermined conditions that have been set in advance, recognizes the predetermined operation command signal that contains the command signal mode as being a different type of operation command signal.

Abstract: A cyclic silane having high purity, a composition containing a polysilane obtained by polymerization of the cyclic silane, and a silicon thin film are disclosed. A method for producing a cyclic silane of the formula (SiH2)n, where n is an integer of 4 to 6, includes reacting a cyclic silane compound of the formula (SiR1R2)n (where R1 and R2 are each a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group) with a hydrogen halide in the presence of an aluminum halide to obtain a cyclic silane of the formula (SiR3R4)n (where R3 and R4 are each a halogen atom), and then distilling the solution, and reducing the cyclic silane of the formula (SiR3R4)n with hydrogen or lithium aluminum hydride. The distillation may be carried out at a temperature of 40° C. to 80° C. under a reduced pressure of 0 to 30 Torr.

Abstract: A piston for an engine is provided, that makes it possible to improve supply of engine oil to a recessed part thereof. The piston includes a resin coating film and a recessed part on a surface of a skirt part. In the piston, resin coating films are distributed in a patchy fashion on the surface of the skirt part. The recessed part is formed by the surface of the skirt part, between adjacent surfaces of the patchy resin coating films and by the adjacent resin coating films, forming a net-like groove. An outer-edge resin coating film, extending in a piston movement direction, is provided at the ends, in a piston circumferential direction of the skirt part.

Abstract: There is provided an engine lubricating device with which passage resistance of an oil strainer can be reduced and a support stay for an oil filter is unnecessary. An oil strainer includes an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder, the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder respectively have straight central axes and form inner and outer double cylinders, the outer cylinder has a strainer inlet at a lower end, the inner cylinder has a peripheral wall formed as a filter portion, the oil strainer is led out in an orientation inclined downward from the cylinder block toward an inner bottom portion of an oil pan, an upper end portion of the outer cylinder is fixed to a cylinder block, and an upper end opening portion of the inner cylinder communicates with an oil passage inlet of the cylinder block.

Abstract: The present invention intends to more accurately diagnose a function of a flow rate sensor regardless of a variation in measurement ambient condition. The present invention includes: a flow rate sensor for measuring the flow rate of fluid; a correction part adapted to measure an output value of the flow rate sensor or a value related to the output value (hereinafter collectively referred to as an “output-related value”), relates the measured output-related value and a corresponding measurement ambient condition to each other, and in accordance with the measurement ambient condition in measurement data, correct the output-related value or a reference value that is predetermined in order to determine whether the output-related value is normal; and a diagnostic part adapted to compare the output-related value and the reference value on the basis of a correction result by the correction part and correct the function of the flow rate sensor.

Abstract: In order to restrain generation of a peak in the measured flow rate, a fluid control unit measures a flow rate of a fluid in a channel and outputs a signal indicating a valve operation amount of a fluid control valve obtained based on a deviation between a preset flow rate and a measured flow rate and a control coefficient, and the control coefficient for a stable state and the control coefficient for a transitional state are so set to moderate fluctuation of the valve operation amount to the deviation more in the transitional state than in the stable state. At or shortly after a timing when the stable state is switched to the transitional state, a signal is output that indicates an operation amount for a switching time calculated based on each of the operation amounts output at a plurality of timings in the stable state.

Abstract: There is provided a cylinder head cooling apparatus of an engine capable of enhancing cooling efficiency around an auxiliary combustion chamber wall. The cylinder head cooling apparatus of an engine including a cylinder head having therein an intake port, an exhaust port, an auxiliary combustion chamber, and a cooling water jacket, in which an intake port wall, an exhaust port wall, and an auxiliary combustion chamber wall are placed in the cooling water jacket, the cooling water jacket includes a cooling water inlet and a cooling water outlet, engine cooling water flowed from the cooling water inlet into the cooling water jacket flows out from the cooling water outlet through the cooling water jacket, wherein a cooling water guide wall is provided upstream of the auxiliary combustion chamber wall in a cooling water passing path of the cooling water jacket, and the upstream cooling water guide wall is formed into a shape whose width gradually widens toward a downstream side.

Abstract: To provide a novel diamine, and a polyimide precursor and a polyimide using it. A diamine represented by the formula (1): wherein each of X1 and X5 which are independent of each other, is a single bond or the like; each of X2 and X4 which are independent of each other, is —CH2— or the like; X3 is a C1-6 alkylene or the like; each of Y1 and Y2 which are independent of each other, is a single bond or the like; R is a C1-20 linear, branched or cyclic hydrocarbon group; and a is 0 or 1).

Abstract: A flow rate control apparatus is provided which enables high speed response particularly in a transient response state, such as when a target flow rate falls. The flow rate control apparatus includes: a valve provided with a position sensor to measure an opening degree and disposed in a flow channel; a flow rate sensor disposed upstream of the valve and provided with a restrictor; a first pressure sensor disposed downstream of the restrictor and disposed upstream of the valve; a second pressure sensor disposed downstream of the valve; a storage section to store a characteristic map indicating a relationship between at least the opening degree of the valve, a differential pressure before and after the valve, and a flow rate of a fluid passing through the flow channel; and a valve control section to control the valve so that the flow rate reaches an accepted target flow rate.

Abstract: A leaf spring portion turning back at a bottom wall (first side wall portion) and coming into contact with a male terminal of a connector on the other side to press the male terminal to a ceiling wall (second side wall portion) is formed in a tubular-shaped main terminal body portion in a terminal, the main terminal body portion is formed when a metal plate is bent in a tubular shape such that a pair of end edges approaches each other to form the ceiling wall (second side wall portion), and depressed portions bending toward an inside of the main terminal body portion and extending in a longitudinal direction of the main terminal body portion are provided in a pair of respective wall portions forming the ceiling wall (second side wall portion).