Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core is formed of a band-shaped steel sheet that is helically bent and laminated. The stator core has slots each opening at an inner periphery of the stator core and spaced from one another in a circumferential direction. The stator coil is formed of electrical conductor segments that are inserted in the slots of the stator core and connected with one another. The band-shaped steel sheet has slits each of which is formed, at a position corresponding to one of the slots, to be open to the corresponding slot. Each of the electrical conductor segments is substantially U-shaped and has a pair of leg portions respectively inserted in corresponding two of the slots of the stator core; the corresponding two slots are circumferentially apart from each other by two or more slot-pitches.

Abstract: A memory includes: a magnet including a first and second portions adjacent in a first direction. The first portion has a first dimension in a second direction at a first position at which a dimension of the magnet in the second direction is maximum, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second portion has a second dimension in the second direction at a second position at which a dimension of the magnet in the second direction is minimum, the second dimension smaller than the first dimension, the first portion is continuous to the second portion via a third position between the first and second positions, a curve corresponding to an outer of the magnet extends between the first and third positions, and the curve passes through a side closer to the central axis of the magnet than a straight line connecting the first and second positions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, a system, and a method. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming engine to form an image on a recording medium, interrupts an image formation by the image forming engine in response to a malfunction, detects a recording medium on which the image formation is interrupted, and notifies an external device of a detection result of the recording medium.

Abstract: Compositions which contain an amino acid comprising serine, and a lipid comprising at least one n-3 fatty acid are useful for preventing or improving nociceptive pain.

Abstract: A method for producing a coil for electric apparatus of the present invention is the method for producing a coil for electric apparatus for cutting spirally a block-shaped workpiece formed with a cylindrical portion corresponding to the coil in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion, the spiral coil is formed by turning a cutting means while moving it relatively to the workpiece from a part corresponding to one end of the coil to a part corresponding the other end of the coil along a machining line spirally set in the circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion. According to the invention, since the coil is formed by cutting the continuous cutting machining plane without generating a step in design from the block-shaped workpiece formed with a cylindrical portion corresponding to the coil using a wire-tool etc., it is possible to constitute a high-quality coil.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing an optical element comprising a base material, and a stack covering of layers formed on the base material. The method of the present disclosure comprises a multi-layers forming step for forming an optical multi-layered part of the stack covering, and an outermost surface forming step for forming an outermost surface part of the stack covering. A pressure condition for the formation of the stack covering is made discontinuous between the multi-layers forming step and the outermost surface forming step. In the outermost surface forming step, a silicon oxide-containing layer is formed prior to a formation of a fluorine compound-containing layer.

Abstract: There is provided an optical element comprising a base material comprising a resin material and a stack covering of layers disposed on the base material. In the optical element of the present disclosure, the stack covering comprises an optical multi-layered part composed of a high refractive index layer comprising Ta2O5 and a low refractive index layer comprising SiO2, the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer being alternately stacked in a form of 4 or more layers. Of a plurality of high refractive index layers, a first high refractive index layer situated most closely to the base material has a fissured structure.

Abstract: A method for producing a coil for electric apparatus of the present invention is the method for producing a coil for electric apparatus for cutting spirally a block-shaped workpiece formed with a cylindrical portion corresponding to the coil in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion, the spiral coil is formed by turning a cutting means while moving it relatively to the workpiece from a part corresponding to one end of the coil to a part corresponding the other end of the coil along a machining line spirally set in the circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion. According to the invention, since the coil is formed by cutting the continuous cutting machining plane without generating a step in design from the block-shaped workpiece formed with a cylindrical portion corresponding to the coil using a wire-tool etc., it is possible to constitute a high-quality coil.

Abstract: Compositions which contain an amino acid comprising serine, and a lipid comprising at least one n-3 fatty acid are useful for preventing or improving nociceptive pain.

Abstract: There is configured a coil unit arrangement device that forms an array coil group by arranging in a predetermined arrangement order each relevant coil of a coil unit in which a plurality of coils corresponding to a plurality of phases is connected by a jumper wire for each phase, the coil unit arrangement device including: a holding section provided with a rotatable coil unit support that supports the coil unit; and a receiving section provided with an array coil group support that supports the array coil group, the receiving section relatively turning with respect to the holding section.

Abstract: There is configured a coil unit arrangement device that forms an array coil group by arranging in a predetermined arrangement order each relevant coil of a coil unit in which a plurality of coils corresponding to a plurality of phases is connected by a jumper wire for each phase, the coil unit arrangement device including: a holding section provided with a rotatable coil unit support that supports the coil unit; and a receiving section provided with an array coil group support that supports the array coil group, the receiving section relatively turning with respect to the holding section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a windshield of an aircraft, including a plurality of conductive members that are disposed along an in-plane direction of the windshield, and are wire-connected together, wherein the plurality of conductive members are heaters that generate heat when supplied with an alternating current, and the conductive members are wire-connected such that induced currents induced in the respective conductive members by a magnetic field in association with a lightning current are circulated between the conductive members.

Abstract: An evaluating method includes an evaluating step of evaluating a future risk of relapse of ulcerative colitis for a subject to be evaluated having ulcerative colitis in a remission phase using a concentration value of histidine, albumin, hemoglobin, or glutamic acid in blood of the subject.

Abstract: The present invention provides a planting container capable of sufficiently and stably supply planting water to a rhizosphere where roots of a plant grow, securing as large a space as possible for the rhizosphere, and further accelerating the growth of the stem or leaves of the plant. The planting container comprises a planting container body 1 including a planting space 2 having an opening at a front portion thereof to allow a plant to grow, a reservoir 8 for planting water that is provided in a lower part of the planting space 2, and a water-absorbing planting bed placed within the planting space 2 with a bottom portion thereof being positioned in the reservoir 8 for absorbing planting water retained in the reservoir 8 to cultivate the plant, wherein the container further comprises a receiving surface 10 for receiving the planting bed within the planting space 2 formed as an inclined surface that is raised progressively toward the opening and is lowered progressively away from the opening.

Abstract: A plant cultivation container is provided which does not need a feed-water tube made of a porous material or the like but the plant cultivation bed material can be made permeated in a relatively short time period. For this purpose, a water reservoir portion for pooling plant cultivation water is provided, the water reservoir portion having a bed material accommodation part for placing a water-absorbing plant cultivation bed material. In the plant cultivation container, the water reservoir portion is provided with a surrounding feed-water channel that surrounds an entire circumference of the bed material accommodation part, and a feed-discharge channel for supplying the plant cultivation water from outside to the water reservoir portion and for discharging the plant cultivation water in the water reservoir portion to outside is provided in communication with the surrounding feed-water channel.

Abstract: A planting unit and a planter including such planting units are provided. The planting unit may include a housing having a mounting space for placing a planting bed material therein, a water reservoir portion that reserves planting water for the planting bed material mounted in the mounting space, and a front face opening portion allowing exposure therethrough of the planting bed material mounted in the mounting space. At an upper portion of the housing, a water feeding portion that feeds water to the water reservoir portion is formed. At a lower portion of the housing, a water discharging portion that discharges the water in the water reservoir portion is formed. On side portions of the housing, there is a communication portion allowing communication between the water reservoir portion and a water reservoir portion of another planting unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a multilayered photosensitive layer or a monolayer photosensitive layer, wherein the multilayered photosensitive layer comprises at least a charge generation layer containing a charge generation material and a charge transport layer containing a charge transport material that are stacked on a conductive substrate in this order, and the monolayer photosensitive layer contains a charge generation material and a charge transport material that is stacked on a conductive substrate, wherein the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains 5 to 17 wt % of fluorine resin fine particles and their aggregates with respect to all photoreceptor components in a surface layer of the photoreceptor, wherein the fluorine resin fine particles are 0.1 to 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a windshield of an aircraft, including a plurality of conductive members that are disposed along an in-plane direction of the windshield, and are wire-connected together, wherein the plurality of conductive members are heaters that generate heat when supplied with an alternating current, and the conductive members are wire-connected such that induced currents induced in the respective conductive members by a magnetic field in association with a lightning current are circulated between the conductive members.

Abstract: A windshield (10) of an aircraft (1) of the present invention includes a conductive member (21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28) that is configured to generate heat when a current is supplied. The conductive member (21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28) is oriented in a lateral direction (DH) that is a horizontal direction included in an in-plane direction of the windshield (10).

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a multilayered photosensitive layer or a monolayer photosensitive layer, wherein the multilayered photosensitive layer comprises at least a charge generation layer containing a charge generation material and a charge transport layer containing a charge transport material that are stacked on a conductive substrate in this order, and the monolayer photosensitive layer contains a charge generation material and a charge transport material that is stacked on a conductive substrate, wherein the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains 5 to 17 wt % of fluorine resin fine particles and their aggregates with respect to all photoreceptor components in a surface layer of the photoreceptor, wherein the fluorine resin fine particles are 0.1 to 0.