Abstract: An electric wire with a crimp terminal which can improve a connection stability between a crimp terminal and the electric wire without making a fixing work of the crimp terminal troublesome is provided. In an electric wire with a crimp terminal in which an outer peripheral surface of a conductor portion into which a plurality of metal element wires is bundled together is covered with an insulating sheath portion into an electric wire, and the conductor portion of a terminal portion of the electric wire is exposed, and a conductor crimping portion of the crimp terminal is crimped onto the exposed conductor portion, the terminal surfaces of the plurality of metal element wires are cut in alignments so that the metal element lines extend more as the metal element lines are farther from one side portion side of the exposed conductor portion in a radial direction.

Abstract: A magnetic core includes a nanocrystalline alloy ribbon having a composition represented by FeCuxBySizAaXb, where 0.6?x<1.2, 10?y?20, 0?(y+z)?24, and 0?a?10, 0?b?5, all numbers being in atomic percent, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, and where A is an optional inclusion of at least one element selected from Ni, Mn, Co, V, Cr, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W, and X is an optional inclusion of at least one element selected from Re, Y, Zn, As, In, Sn, and rare earth elements. The nanocrylstalline alloy ribbon has a local structure such that nanocrystals with average particle sizes of less than 40 nm are dispersed in an amorphous matrix and are occupying more than 30 volume percent of the ribbon.

Abstract: A nanocrystalline alloy ribbon has an alloy composition represented by FeCuxBySizAaXb where 0.6?x<1.2, 10?y?20, 0<z?10, 10?(y+z)?24, 0?a?10, 0?b?5, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, where A is an optional inclusion of at least one element selected from Ni, Mn, Co, V, Cr, Ti, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta and W, and X is an optional inclusion of at least one element selected from Re, Y, Zn, As, In, Sn, and rare earth elements, all numbers being in atomic percent. The ribbon has a local structure having nanocrystals with average particle sizes of less than 40 nm dispersed in an amorphous matrix, the nanocrystals occupying more than 30 volume percent of the ribbon and has a radius of ribbon curvature of at least 200 mm.

Abstract: A suspension device interposed between a vehicle body and a wheel includes a shock absorber, a suspension spring, a tube member accommodating the shock absorber and the suspension spring, a sealing member closing a one-side opening of the tube member and holding a piston rod of the shock absorber, a damping force adjustment portion, which includes a coil generating a magnetic field in a passage and a wiring penetrating the piston rod and the sealing member and conducting the coil, electrically adjusting resistance caused when an operating fluid, which is a magnetic viscous fluid whose viscosity changes by a magnetic field's action, passes through the passage allowing two chambers defined and formed by a piston in a cylinder to communicate with each other in the shock absorber, and a reaction force adjustment portion, which is mounted on the sealing member, for adjusting a reaction force of the suspension spring.

Abstract: A portion of a flat conductor of a flat circuit board is exposed from an insulating layer covering at least one of surfaces of the flat conductor. A terminal includes a bottom plate on which the exposed portion of the flat conductor is provided, and crimp claws which are raised at two side edges of the bottom plate so that the exposed portion of the flat conductor is disposed therebetween. A spacer member is provided on the exposed portion of the flat conductor, and is configured to be plastically deformed so as to contact with inner surfaces of the crimp claws when the crimp claws are crimped onto the spacer member, thereby the terminal is crimped to the flat conductor in a state where the exposed portion of the flat conductor is in surface contact with the bottom plate.

Abstract: A soft-magnetic, amorphous alloy ribbon produced by a rapid quenching method, having transverse lines of recesses formed on its surface by laser beams with predetermined longitudinal intervals, with a doughnut-shaped projection formed around each recess; doughnut-shaped projections having smooth surfaces substantially free from splashes of the alloy melted by the irradiation of laser beams, and a height t2 of 2 ?m or less; and a ratio t1/T of the depth t1 of the recesses to the thickness T of the ribbon being in a range of 0.025-0.18, thereby having low iron loss and low apparent power.

Abstract: A front fork includes a pair of dampers standing on both sides of a wheel. One of the pair of dampers is a magnetic viscous fluid damper configured to use a magnetic viscous fluid whose viscosity is changed by an action of a magnetic field as a working fluid, while the other of the pair of dampers is a liquid-pressure damper configured to use a liquid such as oil, water, an aqueous solution and the like as the working fluid.

Abstract: An electric wire terminal connection structure includes an electric wire including a core made of a metallic material and an insulation layer covering the core, a terminal fitting attached to a terminal of the electric wire and made of a metallic material other than the metallic material of the core, and an intermediary cap to be crimped to the core by the terminal fitting and to cover an exposed portion of the core exposed by removing the insulation layer at the terminal of the electric wire. The intermediary cap has conductivity and is made of a metallic material having a value of a standard electrode potential between that of the core and that of the terminal fitting.

Abstract: By a wire end joining method, conductors are integrally joined to each other by applying ultrasonic vibration in a predetermined direction to a conductor bundle obtained by bundling the conductors exposed from a plurality of wires. In a conductor bundle forming process, the conductor bundle is formed by bundling the conductors while interposing metallic foils or plates between the conductors adjacent in a predetermined direction which is an applying direction of the ultrasonic vibration. In an ultrasonic joining process, the conductors are integrally joined to each other by applying the ultrasonic vibration to the formed conductor bundle while pressing the formed conductor bundle in the predetermined direction.

Abstract: To provide an electric wire with a crimp terminal which can improve a connection stability between a crimp terminal and the electric wire without making a fixing work of the crimp terminal troublesome. In an electric wire with a crimp terminal in which an outer peripheral surface of a conductor portion into which a plurality of metal element wires is bundled together is covered with an insulating sheath portion into an electric wire, and the conductor portion of a terminal portion of the electric wire is exposed, and a conductor crimping portion of the crimp terminal is crimped onto the exposed conductor portion, the terminal surfaces of the plurality of metal element wires are cut in alignments so that the metal element lines extend more as the metal element lines are farther from one side portion side of the exposed conductor portion in a radial direction.

Abstract: An arc runner has a pair of side panels covering movable contacts and fixed contacts from a width direction of a movable contactor, a back panel covering the movable contacts and the fixed contacts from a longitudinal direction of the movable contactor, and a top panel covering the movable contacts and the fixed contacts from above, is formed of a magnetic material, and guides arcs to be generated between the movable contacts and the fixed contacts when the movable contacts and the fixed contacts separate from each other, toward an upward direction of the movable contactor. Furthermore, the arc runner includes, in a central portion of the top panel, a top panel hole flow-path area which is larger than top-panel to side-panel gaps formed between the side panels and the top panel.

Abstract: A connector structure includes a circuit body, a fork terminal, a housing and an insertion member. The circuit body includes a conductor including a two-pronged part having two extended portions, and plated leads arranged at the extended portions respectively. The fork terminal includes a first terminal part and a second terminal part which project from a terminal base so that an insertion space is formed between the first and second terminal parts. The housing includes a fitting part accommodating the fork terminal. The insertion member is inserted into the insertion space through the fitting part in a state where the circuit body is fixed. The circuit body is electrically connected with one of the first and second terminal parts with the insertion of the insertion member.

Abstract: A connecting structure includes a sheathing connecting section in which sheathed sections of a plurality of electric wires, which are sections at both sides of exposed conductor sections, are bundled together in a state of being superimposed with each other; and a conductor connecting section in which the conductor sections of the plurality of electric wires are intertwined in a state of being folded back, and a section of the folded back conductor section remaining as a result of excluding a portion of the folded back conductor section are ultrasonically bonded in integration.

Abstract: An electric wire with a crimp terminal can improve a connection stability between a crimp terminal and the electric wire without making a fixing work of the crimp terminal troublesome. In an electric wire with a crimp terminal in which an outer peripheral surface of a conductor portion into which a plurality of metal element wires is bundled together is covered with an insulating sheath portion into an electric wire, and the conductor portion of a terminal portion of the electric wire is exposed, and a conductor crimping portion of the crimp terminal is crimped onto the exposed conductor portion, the terminal surfaces of the plurality of metal element wires are cut in alignments so that the metal element lines extend more as the metal element lines are farther from one side portion side of the exposed conductor portion in a radial direction.

Abstract: An information processing system and a service providing apparatus store an electronic file transmitted by an information processing apparatus, receive comments posted to the electronic file, manage the comments with arranged in a time order, and insert the comments into the electronic file. When downloading of the electronic file is instructed, the information processing system and service providing apparatus output the electronic file into which the comments have been inserted.

Abstract: A suspension device interposed between a vehicle body and a wheel includes a shock absorber, a suspension spring, a tube member accommodating the shock absorber and the suspension spring, a sealing member closing a one-side opening of the tube member and holding a piston rod of the shock absorber, a damping force adjustment portion, which includes a coil generating a magnetic field in a passage and a wiring penetrating the piston rod and the sealing member and conducting the coil, electrically adjusting resistance caused when an operating fluid, which is a magnetic viscous fluid whose viscosity changes by a magnetic field's action, passes through the passage allowing two chambers defined and formed by a piston in a cylinder to communicate with each other in the shock absorber, and a reaction force adjustment portion, which is mounted on the sealing member, for adjusting a reaction force of the suspension spring.

Abstract: An earth cable connecting structure of a shielded electric wire for connecting a shield layer of the shielded electric wire to an earth cable. The shielded electric wire includes an inner insulating layer covering a core wire, the shield layer provided in an outer periphery of the inner insulating layer and an outer insulating layer covering the shield layer. A first crimping part is crimped to the shield layer of a part from which the outer insulating layer is removed. A second crimping part is crimped to a core wire of the earth cable in an outer surface side opposite to an inner surface of the first crimping part which faces the shield layer. The first crimping part and the second crimping part are formed integrally.

Abstract: A suspension device interposed between a vehicle body and a wheel, including a magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber in which a magnetic viscous fluid is sealed, a tube member composed of an outer tube connected to the vehicle body side and an inner tube connected to the wheel side and going into/out of the outer tube and accommodating the magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber, a lubricant liquid stored in the tube member, and a seal member closing a space between the inner tube and the magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber and preventing intrusion of the lubricant liquid to the wheel side.

Abstract: In a case where an image and another image are integrated into one file, brightness, dynamic ranges, etc., of the images are different from each other. Consequently, an image processing apparatus obtains first image information indicative of characteristics of a first image obtained from a first device and second image information indicative of characteristics of a second image obtained from a second device that is a device different from the first device. Then, the first image is corrected based on the first image information and the second image information. The first image that is corrected and the second image are combined.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an apparatus capable of supplying image data via a network, and for providing a cloud-type printing service. The information processing apparatus includes: a unit configured to determine whether a mark indicating that an image can be added is included in a print image; a unit configured to prompt the apparatus capable of supplying image data to supply data of an additional image in the case where it is determined that the mark is included in the print image; a combination unit configured to combine the additional image supplied from the apparatus with the print image; and a unit configured to give instructions to print the combined image generated by the combination to a printing apparatus connected via the network.