Abstract: A terminal includes a connection part electrically connectable to a mating terminal, and a crimp part capable of crimping a cable. The connection part includes a first base having electrical conductivity, and a first plating layer that covers the first base, has a Vickers hardness of 250 Hv or more, and contains silver alloy containing silver. The crimp part includes a second base having electrical conductivity, and a second plating layer that covers the second base, has a Vickers hardness of less than 225 Hv, and contains either silver or silver alloy containing silver.

Abstract: A terminal includes a connection part electrically connectable to a mating terminal, and a crimp part capable of crimping a cable. The connection part includes a first base having electrical conductivity, and a first plating layer that covers the first base, has a Vickers hardness of 250 Hv or more, and contains silver alloy containing silver. The crimp part includes a second base having electrical conductivity, and a second plating layer that covers the second base, has a Vickers hardness of less than 225 Hv, and contains either silver or silver alloy containing silver.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite container. The method includes providing a paper label, and a preform; providing a molding die equipped with a closed, cylindrical lower mold and an upper mold composed of a plurality of split-mold segments; arranging the paper label in the lower mold; arranging the preform between opened split-mold segments; moving one or both of the lower mold with the paper label and the upper mold with the preform in a direction towards each other to close the molding die; implementing blow-molding on the preform in the molding die; and opening the molding die to release the composite container.

Abstract: A terminal-equipped electrical wire according to a first aspect of the present invention includes an electrical wire having a conductor and an electrical-wire coating member covering the conductor, and a crimp terminal having a crimp-terminal main body electrically connected to the conductor of the electrical wire, and an anticorrosive plating layer provided to a portion of a surface of the crimp-terminal main body, the portion being in contact with at least the conductor of the electrical wire. The conductor is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and the anticorrosive plating layer is made of a Ni—Zn alloy having a Zn content of 69 to 78% by mass.

Abstract: A terminal plating material includes a metal substrate, and a silver-tin alloy plating layer containing a silver-tin alloy, arranged on the metal substrate. The silver-tin alloy plating layer contains an intermetallic compound of silver and tin, the Vickers hardness of the surface of the silver-tin alloy plating layer in the terminal plating material is 250 Hv or more, and the surface roughness of the silver-tin alloy plating layer is 0.60 ?mRa or less. Further, a terminal is formed from the terminal plating material. A terminal-equipped electric wire includes the terminal. A wire harness includes the terminal-equipped electric wire.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a container containing a content fluid, including: a molding step of stretching a bottomed tubular preform that is heated to a temperature at which the preform is stretchable so as to form the container by means of pressure of the content fluid injected into the preform through a mouth portion; a sealing step of sealing the content fluid by fitting a cap body to the mouth portion; and a pressurizing step of increasing an inner pressure of the container, wherein the container includes an invertible deforming portion that is freely invertible and deformable toward an inside of the container, and in the pressurizing step, the inner pressure of the container is increased by reducing a volume of the container by inverting and deforming the invertible deforming portion toward the inside of the container.

Abstract: There is provided an electrical contact member including: a conductive base material; and an Ag—Sn alloy plated layer formed on the conductive base material, wherein the Ag—Sn alloy plated layer has a first Ag—Sn alloy plated layer having an Sn concentration of 5 to 38 at. % and a Vickers hardness of 100 or more Hv and less than 300 Hv and a second Ag—Sn alloy plated layer having a Vickers hardness higher than that of the first Ag—Sn alloy plated layer in this order from the outermost layer.

Abstract: There is provided an electrical contact member including: a conductive base material; and an Ag—Sn alloy plated layer formed on the conductive base material, wherein the Ag—Sn alloy plated layer has a first Ag—Sn alloy plated layer having an Sn concentration of 5 to 38 at. % and a Vickers hardness of 100 or more Hv and less than 300 Hv and a second Ag—Sn alloy plated layer having a Vickers hardness higher than that of the first Ag—Sn alloy plated layer in this order from the outermost layer.

Abstract: A terminal plating material includes a metal substrate, and a silver-tin alloy plating layer containing a silver-tin alloy, arranged on the metal substrate. The silver-tin alloy plating layer contains an intermetallic compound of silver and tin, the Vickers hardness of the surface of the silver-tin alloy plating layer in the terminal plating material is 250 Hv or more, and the surface roughness of the silver-tin alloy plating layer is 0.60 ?mRa or less. Further, a terminal is formed from the terminal plating material. A terminal-equipped electric wire includes the terminal. A wire harness includes the terminal-equipped electric wire.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a synthetic resin container, including: after the shaping of a container, drawing back a liquid inside the container to a pressurized liquid feeding unit side by a suckback mechanism disposed at a predetermined position in a feeding channel of the liquid from the pressurized liquid feeding unit to a mouth tube portion of a preform; closing the feeding channel by means of a valve mechanism disposed on the downstream side of the suckback mechanism; introducing a gas into the container so that the volume reduction deformation of the container resulting from the drawing back of the liquid is restored to its original shape; and adjusting a headspace inside the container with the amount of volume change associated with the volume reduction deformation.

Abstract: A blow molding device includes a blow molding mold to which a bottomed tubular preform is fitted, a blow nozzle that is fitted to a mouth tubular portion of the preform fitted to the mold, and a pressurized liquid supply unit configured to supply a pressurized liquid to the blow nozzle. The preform is to be molded into a shape conforming to a cavity of the mold by filling the liquid into the preform through the blow nozzle. The blow molding device further includes: a deaeration mechanism that is connected to the blow nozzle. The liquid is filled into the preform through the blow nozzle after air that is present within the preform fitted to the mold is sucked out by the deaeration mechanism.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite container. The method includes providing a paper label, and a preform; providing a molding die equipped with a closed, cylindrical lower mold and an upper mold composed of a plurality of split-mold segments; arranging the paper label in the lower mold; arranging the preform between opened split-mold segments; moving one or both of the lower mold with the paper label and the upper mold with the preform in a direction towards each other to close the molding die; implementing blow-molding on the preform in the molding die; and opening the molding die to release the composite container.

Abstract: To regulate, in blow molding device using liquid, such as beverage, cosmetic product, and pharmaceutical product, filled in final product as pressurized liquid, head space in container which is filled with content liquid during molding to be predetermined volume, provided is blow molding device including blow nozzle configured to tightly communicate with mouth tubular portion of preform. In state where rod is disposed to be inserted into blow nozzle and where tip portion of rod is inserted into preform, pressurized liquid is supplied into preform via tubular introduction path formed by blow nozzle and rod, thereby expandingly shaping container in accordance with cavity of metal mold. When container is shaped and supply of pressurized liquid is stopped, rod is disinserted from container, and according to shape and insert position of tip portion of rod, head space of shaped container that is filled with liquid is regulated to be predetermined volume.

Abstract: A terminal-equipped electrical wire according to a first aspect of the present invention includes an electrical wire having a conductor and an electrical-wire coating member covering the conductor, and a crimp terminal having a crimp-terminal main body electrically connected to the conductor of the electrical wire, and an anticorrosive plating layer provided to a portion of a surface of the crimp-terminal main body, the portion being in contact with at least the conductor of the electrical wire. The conductor is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and the anticorrosive plating layer is made of a Ni—Zn alloy having a Zn content of 69 to 78% by mass.

Abstract: A blow molding device, having: a mold; a blow nozzle tightly communicating with a mouth tubular part of a preform when the preform fitted in the mold; and a stretch rod, the blow molding device imparting shape to a container by longitudinally stretching the preform by means of the stretch rod and stretching the preform into an expanded shape by means of a pressurized liquid fed, via the blow nozzle, from a pressurized liquid feeding part separately provided, in which the blow nozzle has a support part for supporting the posture of the stretch rod, and a filling head part communicating with the mouth tubular part of the preform, the filling head part having a feed channel formed therein in the axial direction; and the support part and the filling head part are configured to be detachably coupled to each other in the vertical direction.

Abstract: To effectively prevent a mouth portion of a preform from being deformed and enlarged in diameter during blow molding, provided is a blow molding device that includes: a blow mold inside which a cavity is provided for accommodating therein a preform, except for a mouth portion which is an orifice end of the preform, the preform being preformed in a bottomed tubular shape; a blow nozzle provided to supply a pressurized fluid into the preform through the mouth portion of the preform; a partition wall member that tightly surrounds an outer wall surface of the mouth portion of the preform; with space being formed between the partition wall member and the outer wall surface; and a pressurized fluid supply unit that supplies a pressurized fluid into the space during blow molding.

Abstract: To effectively prevent occurrence of stretching unevenness during blow molding using a liquid as the pressure medium without significantly modifying the structure of a device, provided is a blow molding device including: a metal mold used for blow molding; and a blow nozzle that tightly communicates with a mouth tubular portion of a bottomed tubular preform, the liquid as the pressure medium being supplied into the preform through the blow nozzle. The blow nozzle is provided, at a lower end portion thereof, with an engaging tubular piece that is inserted into the mouth tubular portion, and the engaging tubular piece has a length by which a lower end of the engaging tubular piece extends further downward than a neck ring in a state where the blow nozzle is in communication with the mouth tubular portion, the neck ring being provided around a lower end of the mouth tubular portion.

Abstract: A blow molding device includes a blow molding mold to which a bottomed tubular preform is fitted, a blow nozzle that is fitted to a mouth tubular portion of the preform fitted to the mold, and a pressurized liquid supply unit configured to supply a pressurized liquid to the blow nozzle. The preform is to be molded into a shape conforming to a cavity of the mold by filling the liquid into the preform through the blow nozzle. The blow molding device further includes: a deaeration mechanism that is connected to the blow nozzle. The liquid is filled into the preform through the blow nozzle after air that is present within the preform fitted to the mold is sucked out by the deaeration mechanism.

Abstract: A blow molding device, having: a mold; a blow nozzle tightly communicating with a mouth tubular part of a preform when the preform fitted in the mold; and a stretch rod, the blow molding device imparting shape to a container by longitudinally stretching the preform by means of the stretch rod and stretching the preform into an expanded shape by means of a pressurized liquid fed, via the blow nozzle, from a pressurized liquid feeding part separately provided, in which the blow nozzle has a support part for supporting the posture of the stretch rod, and a filling head part communicating with the mouth tubular part of the preform, the filling head part having a feed channel formed therein in the axial direction; and the support part and the filling head part are configured to be detachably coupled to each other in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A blow molding device includes a blow nozzle to be inserted tightly into a mouth tube section of preform when the preform is inserted in a mold. The blow molding device also includes a pressurized liquid feeding unit and feeds a pressurized liquid from the pressurized liquid feeding unit into the preform through the blow nozzle to form a container into an expanded shape along a cavity of the mold. A valve mechanism, provided at a downstream end of a feed channel for the liquid in the blow nozzle, can open and close the feed channel so that when the valve mechanism is in a closed state, the liquid circulates between the feed channel and the pressurized liquid feeding unit, and when the valve mechanism is in an open state, the pressurized liquid is fed through the feed channel into the preform.