Abstract: An ammonia manufacturing apparatus of an embodiment includes: an electrochemical reaction cell including: a first reaction tank in which a reduction electrode is arranged and gaseous nitrogen is supplied; a second reaction tank in which an oxidation electrode is arranged and an electrolytic solution containing water or water vapor is supplied; and a diaphragm provided between the first reaction tank and the second reaction tank. In the ammonia manufacturing apparatus of the embodiment, the reduction electrode includes a reduction catalyst that reduces nitrogen to produce ammonia, a porous carbon material that supports the reduction catalyst, and an organic polymer material that binds the porous carbon material. The porous carbon material has pores with a BET average pore size of 1 nm or more and 15 nm or less.

Abstract: A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape. A power supply section having a flat shape is a power supply section, which is a housing case capable of accommodating a battery or is a battery, and the power supply section is provided at a position inside the housing that intersects with a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction. A first substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the top surface side relative to the power supply section. A second substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the bottom surface side relative to the power supply section. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker at a position that intersects with the reference plane.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, having an imaging element has top, bottom, front, and rear sides, includes exterior members, a control circuit on a control circuit board to control the imaging apparatus, a display panel on the rear side as one of the exterior members, and a heat release fan. The control circuit board and the display panel are arranged sequentially in a direction of an optical axis from the front side to the rear side. A duct having a vent formed on the duct rear side as one of the exterior members extends from the rear side to the front side and from the top side to the bottom side and connects to a bottom side vent formed on the bottom side as one of the exterior members. The heat release fan is inside the duct near the bottom side below the control circuit board as one of the exterior members.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing element, a fan, a foreign substance removal unit, and a control unit. The fan generates airflow for cooling the image capturing element. The foreign substance removal unit removes a foreign substance from an exposure surface of the image capturing element on an object side of an imaging plane. The control unit operates the foreign substance removal unit to remove a foreign substance adhered to the exposure surface after driving the fan.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus, including an image capturing element and having an optical axis, includes a control circuit to control the image capturing apparatus, a display panel arranged on a rear surface side of an exterior member, and a heat dissipation fan arranged on a bottom surface side of the exterior member. An image capturing element board, a control circuit board, and the display panel are arranged in a direction of the optical axis. A duct, extending from a first ventilation hole to a second ventilation hole formed to face the first ventilation hole across the optical axis, passes through an area among the image capturing element board, the control circuit board, and the bottom surface side of the exterior member. The heat dissipation fan is arranged inside the duct arranged in the area, the control circuit board, and the bottom surface side of the exterior member.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, having a grip portion, an image sensor, and a mount portion receives attachment of an interchangeable lens, includes a control circuit, a display panel disposed on a rear face side of an exterior member, and a heat dissipation fan disposed on a bottom surface side of the exterior member. The image sensor, control circuit, and display panel are arranged in an optical axis direction. A duct, having a first vent, is disposed between the grip and mount portions of a front face of the exterior member, extends in the optical axis direction from a top toward a bottom surface side between substrates of the image sensor and the control circuit, and connects to a second vent formed across an optical axis. The heat dissipation fan is disposed inside the duct and is located on bottom surface sides of the image sensor and the control circuit substrates.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dicing system including a protection layer forming apparatus, a patterning apparatus, a plasma treatment apparatus, a measuring apparatus that obtains at least of first processing data relating to a protection layer, second processing data relating to a mask, and third processing data relating to element chips, and a control unit that operates at least one of the protection layer forming apparatus, the patterning apparatus, and the plasma treatment apparatus on a recipe that is defined for each of the apparatuses. The control unit determines, based on at least one of the first processing data, whether or not to modify the recipe, the second processing data, and the third processing data, modifies the at least one of the recipes if the recipe needs to be modified, and operates at least one of the protection layer forming apparatus, the patterning apparatus, and the plasma treatment apparatus based on the modified recipe.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus, including an image capturing element and having an optical axis, includes a control circuit to control the image capturing apparatus, a display panel arranged on a rear surface side of an exterior member, and a heat dissipation fan arranged on a bottom surface side of the exterior member. An image capturing element board, a control circuit board, and the display panel are arranged in a direction of the optical axis. A duct, extending from a first ventilation hole to a second ventilation hole formed to face the first ventilation hole across the optical axis, passes through an area among the image capturing element board, the control circuit board, and the bottom surface side of the exterior member. The heat dissipation fan is arranged inside the duct arranged in the area, the control circuit board, and the bottom surface side of the exterior member.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, having an imaging element has top, bottom, front, and rear sides, includes exterior members, a control circuit on a control circuit board to control the imaging apparatus, a display panel on the rear side as one of the exterior members, and a heat release fan. The control circuit board and the display panel are arranged sequentially in a direction of an optical axis from the front side to the rear side. A duct having a vent formed on the duct rear side as one of the exterior members extends from the rear side to the front side and from the top side to the bottom side and connects to a bottom side vent formed on the bottom side as one of the exterior members. The heat release fan is inside the duct near the bottom side below the control circuit board as one of the exterior members.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus, having a grip portion, an image sensor, and a mount portion receives attachment of an interchangeable lens, includes a control circuit, a display panel disposed on a rear face side of an exterior member, and a heat dissipation fan disposed on a bottom surface side of the exterior member. The image sensor, control circuit, and display panel are arranged in an optical axis direction. A duct, having a first vent, is disposed between the grip and mount portions of a front face of the exterior member, extends in the optical axis direction from a top toward a bottom surface side between substrates of the image sensor and the control circuit, and connects to a second vent formed across an optical axis. The heat dissipation fan is disposed inside the duct and is located on bottom surface sides of the image sensor and the control circuit substrates.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature coil includes steps of arranging a plurality of coil conductors of the armature coil between an end metal die and a back portion metal die on a lower metal die; pressing, with the upper metal die in a pressing direction, the plurality of the coil conductors arranged between the end metal die and the back portion metal die on the lower metal die; and removing coil conductors that become formed in a convex shape and a concave shape from the lower metal die. The upper metal die may be provided with an inclined portion on a lower metal die side of the upper metal die, and the upper metal die may be configured to be pressed such that a space is formed by the dies, the space having a width that gets gradually narrower.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a floored cylindrical case in which an opening at a first end of a cylindrical portion is closed by a floor portion; a stator that includes: an annular stator core that is held inside the case by being fitted together with and fixed to the cylindrical portion; and coils that are mounted to the stator core; a frame that closes an opening at a second end of the cylindrical portion; and a rotor that is fixed to a rotating shaft, and that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the stator, wherein: a first stress relieving indented portion is formed around an entire circumference at a first end of an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion such that a gap is formed between a first end portion of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core and the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A method for recovering dimethyl sulfoxide, including a step of contacting a recovered resist remover containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of glycol ether, glycol and triol, and dimethyl sulfoxide with water and performing distillation.

Abstract: An expansion device includes: a thermal distension unit configured to thermally distend a thermally-expandable sheet by irradiating the thermally-expandable sheet with predetermined energy; a reading unit configured to read identifiers provided at predetermined positions of the thermally-expandable sheet; and a setting unit configured to set an amount of energy per unit area to be emitted on the thermally-expandable sheet by the thermal distension unit depending on whether (i) a second identifier as well as a first identifier has been read, or (ii) whether a predetermined part of the first identifier has been read but another part has not been read, as a result of reading the identifiers by the reading unit.

Abstract: Provided is in an armature coil formed by arranging a plurality of coil conductors on a lower metal die having a tapered groove that is narrower toward an inner side. The coils are pressed using an upper metal die having an end portion narrower than the width of the groove. The coils are formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape which gets narrower toward the radially inner side and the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of the coil conductors in the slot are each substantially the same and the circumferential width thereof is formed narrower as the coil conductor is arranged toward the radially inner side; and one coil conductor is formed in a convex shape and another coil conductor is formed in a concave shape along the convex shape.

Abstract: A method for recovering dimethyl sulfoxide, including a step of contacting a recovered resist remover containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of glycol ether, glycol and triol, and dimethyl sulfoxide with water and performing distillation.

Abstract: A stator in which stator coils are formed by a plurality of unit coils arranged so as to be shifted from each other in the circumferential direction and each having: a first slot-accommodated portion; a second slot-accommodated portion; a first terminal wire extending from the first slot-accommodated portion; a second terminal wire extending from the second slot-accommodated portion and shifted from the first terminal wire by one line of a conductive wire; a terminal-side coil end portion; and first and second anti-terminal-side coil end portions, wherein the first terminal wire and the second terminal wire of the respective different unit coils are joined with each other.

Abstract: In an armature coil according to the present invention and, more particularly, in an armature coil including a plurality of coil conductors wound around a plurality of slots which are formed in a stator core and opened on the radially inner side, the circumferential width of the plurality of the coil conductors is formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape which gets narrower toward the radially inner side and the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of the coil conductors in the slot are each substantially the same and the circumferential width thereof is formed narrower as the coil conductor is arranged toward the radially inner side; and one coil conductor is formed in a convex shape and another coil conductor is formed in a concave shape along the convex shape.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a floored cylindrical case in which an opening at a first end of a cylindrical portion is closed by a floor portion; a stator that includes: an annular stator core that is held inside the case by being fitted together with and fixed to the cylindrical portion; and coils that are mounted to the stator core; a frame that closes an opening at a second end of the cylindrical portion; and a rotor that is fixed to a rotating shaft, and that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the stator, wherein: a first stress relieving indented portion is formed around an entire circumference at a first end of an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion such that a gap is formed between a first end portion of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core and the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor chip includes: preparing a semiconductor wafer; forming a mask on a front surface of the semiconductor wafer so as to cover each of the element regions and to expose the dividing region; exposing the front surface to plasma in a state where a back surface of the semiconductor wafer is held with a dicing tape to dice the semiconductor wafer into a plurality of semiconductor chips by etching the dividing region exposed from the mask up to the back surface while protecting each of the element regions with the mask from plasma; and removing the mask from the front surface together with an adhesive tape by peeling off the adhesive tape after sticking the adhesive tape to the side of the front surface.