Abstract: Electric resistance welded steel pipe securing the high strength and high toughness demanded from oil well pipe in recent years. The metal structure in a region having a width of 0.5 mm in both the thickness directions from a reference point, when using a point defined as a point ¼ of the thickness in the thickness direction from the surface in the base material part of the steel as the reference point, consists of polygonal ferrite: 10 area % or less and a balance: bainitic ferrite. The thickness is 15 mm or more.

Abstract: An openable roof lock structure for an automobile includes an engaged member fixed to a front header, and an automatic lock device fixed to an openable roof, the automatic lock device being attachable to and detachable from the engaged member. The automatic lock device includes a hook member having a leading end portion in one end, the leading end portion to be engaged with the engaged member, and a drive part to which the other end of the hook member is coupled, the drive part turning the hook member to an upper side of a vehicle to engage the hook member with the engaged member. The hook member includes a buffering member that has elasticity and is abutted with the engaged member on the upper side of the vehicle in a state that the leading end portion is not engaged with the engaged member.

Abstract: A work vehicle automatic traveling system includes a route element selecting unit that, on the basis of state information, sequentially selects a next travel route element on which a work vehicle is to travel next, from a travel route element set and a circling route element set. The route element selecting unit includes a cooperative route element selection rule, which is employed when a plurality of work vehicles carry out work travel cooperatively in an area CA to be worked, and an independent route element selection rule, which is employed when a single independent work vehicle among the work vehicles carries out work travel independently in the area CA to be worked. When the independent work vehicle is carrying out independent work travel in the area CA to be worked, and a work vehicle aside from the host vehicle is carrying out circling travel based on the circling route element or is stopped, the next travel route element is selected on the basis of the independent route element selection rule.

Abstract: A travel route management system includes an area setting unit that sets a work site to an outer peripheral area SA and an area CA to be worked on an inner side of the outer peripheral area SA, and a route element selecting unit that sequentially selects a next travel route element to be traveled on next, from among multiple mutually-parallel travel route elements, the travel route elements constituting a travel route that covers the area CA to be worked. The route element selecting unit selects a U-turn travel route for moving from a travel route element serving as a movement origin to a next travel route element serving as a movement destination, the selection being made on the basis of an interval between the movement origin and the movement destination.

Abstract: A steering device includes: a coupling including a first coupling member, a second coupling member, and an elastic member, the elastic member which is made from a resin, and which includes an elastic member base portion, a first rotation direction elastic portion, a second rotation direction elastic portion, a third rotation direction elastic portion, a fourth rotation elastic portion, and an axial elastic portion, the axial elastic portion which is provided to the elastic member base portion, and which is arranged to be bent in a direction to be inclined with respect to the first axis when a clearance between the first shaft member assembly and the second shaft member assembly in the direction of the first axis is decreased.

Abstract: Disclosed are: an ultrasonic welding member which is independent of a first member and a second member and which is held between a surface to be welded of the first member and a surface to be welded of the second member prior to ultrasonic welding between the surface to be welded of the first member and the surface to be welded of the second member having a shape parallel to or fitted into the surface to be welded of the first member, the ultrasonic welding member characterized by including a thermoplastic resin and satisfying a discontinuous forming requirement, an outside opening requirement, and a bonding place reduction requirement; and an ultrasonic welding method using the ultrasonic welding member. The ultrasonic welding member may include a plurality of streaks at least in a part thereof. The ultrasonic welding member may be a substantially lattice-shaped fabric or textile mesh at least in a part thereof.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To evolve a spark discharge preventing effect of an electrostatic coating device. SOLUTION: One coating robot has an arm equipped with a plurality of electrostatic coating devices 100 close to each other and the plurality of the electrostatic coating devices 100 is connected in parallel with each other to one high-voltage generator 102. A hollow rotary shaft 108 driven by an air motor 104 is disposed with nine plate-shaped resistors 120 arranged circumferentially at intervals. The nine plate-shaped resistors 120 are connected in series and a high voltage is applied via the resistors 120 to a rotary atomization head 110. The rotary atomization head 110 is made of a semiconductive resin.

Abstract: In a power steering apparatus according to the present invention, regarding a lock nut (12) serving as a fixing member, a fixing portion (122) for fixing an outer race (111) of a ball bearing (11) has a portion which overlaps with a facing portion (121) facing the outer race (111) in the direction of a rotation axis (Z) of a nut (941), and is provided radially on an outer side than the facing portion (121). Accordingly, the projection amount of the lock nut (12) toward an output-side pulley (92) is suppressed and the output-side pulley (92) and a belt (93) can be arranged closer to the ball bearing (11) side, as a result of which friction in the ball bearing (11) can be reduced.

Abstract: Provided is a power steering apparatus capable of reducing a maximumly generated stress on an output pulley. An output pulley of a power steering apparatus includes a fastening target portion around a screw insertion hole of a hub portion. When a boundary portion between the hub portion and a winding and hanging portion is defined to be a portion where a minor angle, among relative angles formed between a tangential line of an inner surface of the output pulley and a rotational axis of a nut in an axial cross section of the output pulley that passes through the rotational axis of the nut, gradually reduces from a nut-rotational-axis side toward a radially outer side to then reach 45 degrees, the fastening target portion is a region that is located on an inner side in a radial direction with respect to the boundary portion and overlaps a head portion of a screw in a radial direction of the screw.

Abstract: A bottle-shaped can in which a cap can be mounted on a neck portion without damaging slits and bridges. An annular bead comprises a diametrically largest portion, an upper inclined surface, and a lower inclined surface. An angle of inclination of the upper inclined surface is narrower than that of the lower inclined surface. A thread ridge comprises an incomplete thread portion in which a groove depth is shallower than an average groove depth of the thread ridge, and the incomplete thread portion is formed at one end of the thread ridge on the upper inclined surface at least partially. An angle of inclination of a lower wall of the thread ridge w is greater than that of the upper inclined surface so that a protruding corner is formed. The slits and the bridges are situated at a level lower than the protruding corner.

Abstract: A bottle-shaped can in which flatness and circularity of a neck portion are improved. An upper incomplete thread portion is formed at an upper end of a thread. A height of the upper incomplete thread portion is shorter than an average height of the thread, and increases gradually toward the average height. A length of the upper incomplete thread portion between a first point and a second point is set in such a manner that an angle between a line drawn between the first point and a center point of the neck portion, and a line drawn between the second point and the center point of the neck portion falls within a range from 20 degrees to 60 degrees.

Abstract: Provided are a wafer heating and holding mechanism for a rotary table, a wafer heating method for a rotary table, and a wafer rotating and holding device with which a wafer put on a rotary table can be heated while being rotated stably under a state in which an in-plane temperature distribution of the wafer is maintained. The wafer heating and holding mechanism for a rotary table of a wafer rotating and holding device comprises: a rotary shaft; a rotary table placed on an end of the rotary shaft and configured to hold a wafer on an upper surface of the rotary table; a drive motor configured to supply motive power to the rotary shaft; and heating means provided above the rotary table and below the wafer while avoiding contact with the wafer to heat the wafer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk, a head that performs data read/write processing on a recording region of the disk, a controller that performs a media scan processing for detecting the presence or absence of a defect in a sector in the recording region of the disk in track unit. When the controller performs the media scan processing on a first sector and a second sector arranged in the track, and a third sector arranged between the first sector and the second sector, the controller performs skip processing in which the controller scans the first sector and the second sector, and does not scan the third sector.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a steering apparatus capable of improving a function of a bearing that supports a steering shaft. A steering apparatus includes a steering shaft, a first housing member, a second housing member, and a bearing. The steering shaft rotates according to a rotation of a steering wheel. The first housing member is located on one side in a rotational axial direction of the steering shaft, and includes a cylindrical portion and a flange portion. The cylindrical portion surrounds the steering shaft. The flange portion extends in a radial direction with respect to a rotational axis of the steering shaft to an outer side of the cylindrical portion in the radial direction. The second housing member is provided on the other side in the rotational axial direction, and forms a housing together with the first housing member. The second housing member includes a connection portion and a containing portion.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for accurately processing a neck portion of a bottle-shaped can without changing a posture of the can. An inner tool is inserted into the neck portion from the bottom of a can body to form a stepped portion, and comprises a first forming section having a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of a neck portion. An outer tool comprises a second forming section that is opposed to the inner tool. The stepped portion is formed on the neck portion by sandwiching the neck portion by the first forming section and the second forming section. The inner tool further comprises a holding member that is situated coaxially with the can body to be contacted to an inner surface of the can body. The holding member is attached to the inner tool while being allowed to move in a radial direction together with the can body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a chain tensioner that automatically adjusts flow path resistance inside an oil leak path with a simple configuration to make it possible to reduce a change in damping characteristics resulting from a change in oil temperature and reduce an increase in manufacturing cost. In the chain tensioner, a pressure oil chamber is provided with an oil leak path communicating with an outside of the chain tensioner, the oil leak path contains a movable piece which is movable with a temperature-dependent deformation member that deforms according to oil temperature, and the movable piece is formed into a shape that changes flow path resistance of the oil leak path according to a position to which the movable piece is moved.

Abstract: A power steering device includes: first and second load transition regions provided in first and second predetermined ranges in a nut side ball screw groove from the other end side openings of the first and second connection passages along the nut ball screw groove, formed so that radial distances between a rotation axis of the nut and the nut side ball screw groove are gradually increased toward the other end side opening of the first and second connection passages, and formed so that the balls pass through first and second no load regions, and then pass through a first load region, when the balls in the first and second predetermined ranges are moved from the other end side opening of the first and second connection passages along the nut side ball screw groove.

Abstract: To provide a tensioner that has a simple structure and is easy to assemble, and is configured to smoothly relieve pressure during oil release with reduced flow resistance so that the oil pressure in an oil pressure chamber is kept stable in a favorable manner. A relief valve unit includes a cap member that fits with a seat member to retain a stopper member inside the seat member. An external relief hole, which causes a relief-side space in a plunger hole to communicate with the outside of a plunger, opens radially in an outer circumferential surface of the plunger.

Abstract: A first member (81) including a first opening portion that opens to one side in a circumferential direction around an axis of a rack shaft corresponding to a rotation axis of a nut, and a second member (82) including a second opening portion that confronts the first opening portion, and that opens to the other side in the circumferential direction, are molded so that a first insertion portion (71) and a second insertion portion (72) are inclined along a lead angle of a ball circulation groove with respect to a connection portion (73), and the first and second openings are joined in an abutted state, thereby forming a tube (44).

Abstract: This autonomous work vehicle travel system is provided with: a satellite positioning module 80 that outputs positioning data indicating a vehicle position of a work vehicle 1; an area setting unit that sets an area CA to be worked in a work site; a route managing unit that calculates a travel route element set, which is an aggregate of multiple travel route elements constituting a travel route that covers the area CA to be worked, and storing the travel route element set so as to be readable; a route element selecting unit that selects a next travel route element to be traveled in sequence from the travel route element set; and an autonomous travel controlling unit that causes the work vehicle 1 to travel autonomously on the basis of the next travel route element and the vehicle position.