Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus mounted in a fuel tank has a fuel pump portion for sucking a fuel stored in the fuel tank and then discharging the fuel to the outside. The fuel supply apparatus includes a harness that is connected with an external power source; a power-sending connector portion a power-sending connector portion that is provided in a harness and has power-sending terminals having respective spring portions, a power-receiving connector portion that is provided in a fuel pump portion and has power-receiving terminals to be connected with the power-sending terminals, respectively, when contact pressure based on elastic force of the spring portions, as elastic portions, is provided thereto, and an insulator that covers at least base portions of the power-receiving terminals and at least parts of the spring portions of the power-sending terminals when the power-receiving terminals are connected with the power-sending terminals.

Abstract: a power-sending connector portion that is provided in a harness and has power-sending terminals having respective spring portions, a power-receiving connector portion that is provided in a fuel pump portion and has power-receiving terminals to be connected with the power-sending terminals, respectively, when contact pressure based on elastic force of the spring portions, as elastic portions, is provided thereto, and an insulator that covers at least base portions of the power-receiving terminals and at least parts of the spring portions of the power-sending terminals when the power-receiving terminals are connected with the power-sending terminals, respectively.

Abstract: There are provided a flange mounted in the upper opening of a fuel tank; a fuel pump that takes in a fuel in the fuel tank through a strainer, boosts the pressure of the fuel, and discharges the fuel; a high-pressure filter that filters a fuel that has been discharged from the fuel pump; and a pressure regulator that maintains within a predetermined range the pressure of a fuel that has been filtered by the high-pressure filter. At the bottom portion of the fuel pump including the vapor discharge outlet, there is provided a member that prevents a fuel in the fuel tank from flowing into the pump flow path where the pressure of the fuel is boosted, when pressure loss of the strainer increases.

Abstract: There are provided a flange mounted in the upper opening of a fuel tank; a fuel pump that takes in a fuel in the fuel tank through a strainer, boosts the pressure of the fuel, and discharges the fuel; a high-pressure filter that filters a fuel that has been discharged from the fuel pump; and a pressure regulator that maintains within a predetermined range the pressure of a fuel that has been filtered by the high-pressure filter. At the bottom portion of the fuel pump including the vapor discharge outlet, there is provided a member that prevents a fuel in the fuel tank from flowing into the pump flow path where the pressure of the fuel is boosted, when pressure loss of the strainer increases.

Abstract: A compact vehicle fuel supply device that reduces noise caused by excess fuel discharge from a pressure regulator in a simple manner is provided. The device includes a fuel tank, a fuel pump provided in the fuel tank to raise the pressure of fuel in the fuel tank, a case that accommodates the fuel pump, the pressure regulator supported by the case to regulate fuel emitted from the fuel pump at a prescribed pressure and discharge excess fuel from an outlet, and a noise silencing cup provided to cover the outlet of the pressure regulator and having a discharge hole used to discharge the excess fuel into the case.

Abstract: A vehicle-use fuel supply device includes a fuel tank, a support base body, a reservoir cup which is mounted on the support base body and mounts a fuel pump, a case portion which incorporates a high-pressure filter, and a discharge pipe which is mounted on the case portion and discharges the fuel discharged from the case portion to the outside. The reservoir cup is provided with a first opening portion which allows the fuel to flow into the reservoir cup and to be stored in the reservoir cup, a second opening portion which allows the stored fuel to flow out to the strainer, and a bottomed vessel having a cutout portion in a portion thereof and mounted on the reservoir cup in a state that the vessel covers the second opening portion.

Abstract: To provide a mutant Rad51 paralog gene, wherein a protein encoded thereby shows an activity for enhancing sensitivity of a cell to a DNA-damaging factor; a mutant Rad51 paralog peptide showing the activity; a transformed cell having the gene; a screening method for a drug having a DNA-damaging action, comprising contacting a test substance with the transformed cell, and evaluating a response of the cell; and a screening method for a controlling agent for DNA repair, comprising contacting a test substance with a transformed cell having the Rad51 paralog gene, and evaluating a homologous recombination repair capacity. According to the present invention, there is enabled a screening of a novel anticancer agent which allows a more efficient therapy for a cancer, wherein the agent is an agent capable of enhancing the sensitivity of a cell to an anticancer agent comprising a DNA-damaging factor or an agent having a DNA-damaging action.

Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a bracket fitted around an opening portion of a fuel tank and having a discharge pipe disposed, and a fuel pump for sucking a fuel from the fuel tank and discharging the fuel through the discharge pipe, the fuel pump being mounted on the bracket. The fuel pump includes a pump portion for sucking and discharging the fuel from the fuel tank, a motor portion for rotating a rotor accommodated within the pump portion, through which the fuel discharged from the pump portion is passed internally, a cover out portion for accommodating a discharge filter for filtering the fuel passed through the motor portion, and a debris storage case for storing the debris in the fuel that is captured by the discharge filter, the case being disposed near the discharge filter.

Abstract: A downstream connection block (GB) constituted by connector halves (FB1) is electrically connected in permanent manner to a moving assembly (EB). An upstream connection block (GA) is electrically connected in permanent manner to a stationary power supply block (BA) by flexible conductors (CA). A carriage (K) transfers the upstream block (GA) alternately between a front position (PB) providing electrical connection enabling the moving assembly to be powered, and a rear position (PA) remote from the downstream block (GB). The carriage separates from the upstream block when it is to leave said block in said front position. The invention is particularly applicable to electrically powering electromagnetic stirring inductors carried by an oscillating mold in a continuous steel casting installation.

Abstract: A differential control system for restrictively controlling a differential, which has electromagnetically controlled clutches disposed between differentially driven shafts, is electromagnetically controlled to lock and unlock the driven shafts. The control system has a controller for restrictively applying a locking current to the differential to lock and unlock the clutches in accordance with control modes manually selected.

Abstract: A control system for a four-wheel drive vehicle includes a center differential provided between a front shaft and a rear shaft. The control system also includes a device for restricting a differential between the front shaft and the rear shaft by operating the center differential to be in a locking condition and a controller for controlling the differential restricting device so that a differential restricting force is increased based on an increase in an engine output. The differential restricting force is decreased based on an increase in a vehicle body speed.

Abstract: A control system for a four-wheel drive vehicle includes a first differential provided between a front shaft and a rear shaft and a second differential provided between a right wheel and a left wheel. The control system comprises a first device provided in the first differential for restricting a differential between the front shaft and the rear shaft, a second device provided in the second differential for restricting a differential between the right wheel and the left wheel, and a device for controlling the restricting operations carried out by the first device and the second device. The controlling device includes a device for controlling operational timings in the first device and the second device so that the timing when the first device maintains the first differential in locking condition is different from the timing when the second device maintains the second differential in locking condition.

Abstract: A control system for supercharging an internal combustion engine equipped with an automatic transmission includes superchargers which provide a variable capacity controlled by a supercharging capacity controller according to a supercharging capacity control pattern. The supercharging capacity is controlled so as increase at engine speeds higher when a demand to shift the automatic transmission to a lower speed gear is present than when a demand to shift the automatic transmission to a higher speed gear is present. Change of supercharging capacity is suspended for a predetermined period of time when a demand to shift the automatic transmission is present.

Abstract: A control system for supercharging an internal combustion engine equipped with an automatic transmission includes a capacity changeable supercharger. The supercharger is controlled by a supercharging capacity controller, having data representative of at least one supercharging capacity control line, so that its supercharging capacity is charged according to operating conditions of the internal combustion engine. A transmission shift controller, causing the automatic transmission to shift according to operating conditions of the internal combustion engine, has data representative of at least one gear shift control line for a shift operation of the automatic transmission. The at least one gear shift control line has an intermediate portion, including an intersection with the supercharging capacity control line defined by a specific engine load between upper and lower middle vehicle speeds.

Abstract: A signal level comparing circuit includes a comparator operated by a power source voltage and impressed with a reference voltage lower than the power source voltage at a non-inverted input terminal, first and second resistors connected at one end to the inverted input terminal of the comparator. The other end of the second resistor is grounded through an MOS transistor whose gate is connected to the output terminal of the comparator. The signal level comparing circuit further includes a resistor which is connected at one end to the inverted input terminal of the comparator and grounded through an MOS transistor whose gate is connected to the output terminal of the comparator through an inverter.