Abstract: A substrate comprises: a first insulating layer; a second insulating layer having an elastic modulus that is different from an elastic modulus of the first insulating layer; and a core layer that is sandwiched by the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and is more rigid than the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.

Abstract: An imaging unit comprising an imaging chip and a mounting substrate that has the imaging chip mounted thereon and includes a first metal layer for outputting a signal generated by the imaging chip to the outside. An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging unit that includes an imaging chip and a mounting substrate that has the imaging chip mounted thereon and includes a first metal layer for outputting a signal generated by the imaging chip to the outside.

Abstract: Even when a connection board has a large thickness tolerance, a stable connection is achieved by absorbing the tolerance so as to stabilize a contact pressure between the connection board and contacts. In a unit in which electrode groups of a connection board are in pressure contact with elastic contacts formed integrally with an inner housing to connect thereto, the inner housing is provided inside an outer case of a card edge connector through an elastic member to be freely movable forward and backward in a thickness direction of the connection board. The positions of the elastic contacts are adjusted by forward or backward moving the inner housing in accordance with the thickness of the connection board inserted into board insertion slots, so a pressure contact force with the elastic contacts is substantially equalized, irrespective of the size of the thickness of the connection board.

Abstract: An imaging unit comprising an imaging chip and a mounting substrate that has the imaging chip mounted thereon and includes a first metal layer for outputting a signal generated by the imaging chip to the outside. An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging unit that includes an imaging chip and a mounting substrate that has the imaging chip mounted thereon and includes a first metal layer for outputting a signal generated by the imaging chip to the outside.

Abstract: A storage device includes a command reception unit and a control unit. The command reception unit is configured for communication with a host device to receive a command from the host device, and transmit a completion report to the host device upon completion of processing requested in the command. The control unit is configured to determine a threshold amount of time to wait after the command reception unit receives the command before causing the command reception unit to transmit the completion report, and to cause the command reception unit to transmit the completion report after waiting a period of time after completion of the processing, if the processing completes before the threshold amount of time has elapsed since reception of the command.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for preventing adhesion of aquatic organisms, which includes an antifouling layer, a base material layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in this order, which has the base material layer composed of an inexpensive material, and which has high adhesion between the antifouling layer and the base material layer without performing the easy adhesion treatment, for example, a primer treatment or a corona treatment. A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for preventing adhesion of aquatic organisms of the present invention comprises an antifouling layer, a base material layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in this order, wherein the base material layer contains an ionomer resin.

Abstract: A contact includes a contact unit in contact with a terminal of a circuit board, to establish electric connection; and a barrel unit to contain the contact unit. The contact unit has a first contact point to come into contact with the terminal in an early stage of a relative slide operation in a connection direction when connected to the circuit board, and to be inclined according to the slide operation; a second contact point to swing toward the circuit board according to the inclination of the first contact point, and to be brought into contact with the terminal after a delay from the contact of the first contact point against the terminal; and a contact fulcrum portion. The barrel unit has protrusion support portions to support the contact fulcrum portion. Contact surfaces between the contact fulcrum portion and the protrusion support portions are each a rolled surface.

Abstract: A contact includes a contact unit in contact with a terminal of a circuit board, to establish electric connection; and a barrel unit to contain the contact unit. The contact unit has a first contact point to come into contact with the terminal in an early stage of a relative slide operation in a connection direction when connected to the circuit board, and to be inclined according to the slide operation; a second contact point to swing toward the circuit board according to the inclination of the first contact point, and to be brought into contact with the terminal after a delay from the contact of the first contact point against the terminal; and a contact fulcrum portion. The barrel unit has protrusion support portions to support the contact fulcrum portion. Contact surfaces between the contact fulcrum portion and the protrusion support portions are each a rolled surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-fouling pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet and anti-fouling treatment method capable of preventing peeling from overlapping portions when adjacent anti-fouling pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets are attached by allowing end portions thereof to overlap each other. The anti-fouling pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the present invention includes a base material layer; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on one side of the base material layer; and an anti-fouling layer provided on another side of the base material layer, wherein the anti-fouling pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet has, at an end portion thereof, a bonding margin including parts of the base material layer and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the parts extending beyond the anti-fouling layer.

Abstract: A vessel includes a vessel body, an engine contained in the vessel body, an air intake box including an air intake port and that is attached to the engine, an air intake duct drawn around in the vessel body, and a guide duct including an opening that opposes the air intake port. The air intake box supplies air taken in from the air intake port to the engine. The air intake duct includes an outer end connected to a deck of the vessel body. The guide duct guides air taken in from outside the vessel body by the air intake duct to the opening.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for preventing adhesion of aquatic organisms, which includes an antifouling layer, a base material layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in this order, which has the base material layer composed of an inexpensive material, and which has high adhesion between the antifouling layer and the base material layer without performing the easy adhesion treatment, for example, a primer treatment or a corona treatment. A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape for preventing adhesion of aquatic organisms of the present invention comprises an antifouling layer, a base material layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in this order, wherein the base material layer contains an ionomer resin.

Abstract: A vessel includes a vessel body, an engine contained in the vessel body, an air intake box including an air intake port and that is attached to the engine, an air intake duct drawn around in the vessel body, and a guide duct including an opening that opposes the air intake port. The air intake box supplies air taken in from the air intake port to the engine. The air intake duct includes an outer end connected to a deck of the vessel body. The guide duct guides air taken in from outside the vessel body by the air intake duct to the opening.

Abstract: A substrate comprises: a first insulating layer; a second insulating layer having an elastic modulus that is different from an elastic modulus of the first insulating layer; and a core layer that is sandwiched by the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and is more rigid than the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.

Abstract: A brushless motor comprising: a rotor; a stator core disposed at a radial direction outside of the rotor, and a stator case. The stator core includes an outer ring shaped section, teeth sections projecting out from the outer ring shaped section toward a radial direction inside, and an inner ring shaped section extending from end portions of the teeth sections. Protruding portions are formed at the outer ring shaped section so as to project toward a radial direction outside and so as to be disposed at even intervals around a circumferential direction of the outer ring shaped section. The stator case is integrated together with the stator core by a plurality of plastic deformation portions formed at an outer peripheral portion of the stator case at locations facing towards the protruding portions, and the plastic deformation portions are disposed at even intervals along a circumferential direction of the stator case.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including a photosensitive member, a charger configured to charge the photosensitive member, a developer roller configured to contact the photosensitive member and supply a developer agent to the photosensitive member, a humidity sensor configured to detect humidity, and a controller is provided. The controller is configured to a voltage-application controlling process, in which the controller controls the photosensitive member and the developer roller to rotate, applies a charger-voltage to the charger, and applies a developer-voltage to the developer roller. In the voltage-application controlling process, the controller controls a voltage difference between the charger-voltage and the developer-voltage based on a peripheral velocity ratio of the developer roller with respect to the photosensitive member and the humidity.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, laving a photosensitive member, an exposure device to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member, a developer roller to supply a developer agent to the photosensitive member, a humidity sensor to detect humidity, and a controller, is provided. The controller executes a preparatory rotation controlling process, in which the photosensitive member and the developer roller are rotated prior to forming the electrostatic latent image, and an image-forming controlling process, in which the electrostatic latent image is formed on the photosensitive member. In the preparatory rotation controlling process, the developer roller is rotated at a first peripheral velocity under a condition of the humidity being lower than or equal to a predetermined value, and at a second peripheral velocity being higher than the first peripheral velocity under a condition of the humidity being higher than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A substrate comprises: a first insulating layer; a second insulating layer having an elastic modulus that is different from an elastic modulus of the first insulating layer; and a core layer that is sandwiched by the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and is more rigid than the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer.

Abstract: A brushless motor comprising: a rotor; a stator core disposed at a radial direction outside of the rotor, and a stator case. The stator core includes an outer ring shaped section, teeth sections projecting out from the outer ring shaped section toward a radial direction inside, and an inner ring shaped section extending from end portions of the teeth sections. Protruding portions are formed at the outer ring shaped section so as to project toward a radial direction outside and so as to be disposed at even intervals around a circumferential direction of the outer ring shaped section. The stator case is integrated together with the stator core by a plurality of plastic deformation portions formed at an outer peripheral portion of the stator case at locations facing towards the protruding portions, and the plastic deformation portions are disposed at even intervals along a circumferential direction of the stator case.

Abstract: Providing an electrical component socket that enables stability of an electric resistance value to be maintained even after repeated use. A contact pin of the present invention includes: a lower contact portion; a spring portion that is provided so as to extend upward from the lower contact portion; a linear portion provided so as to extend upward from an upper end of the spring portion; and an upper contact portion that is formed on an upper end side of the linear portion. The upper contact portion includes a first contact protrusion arranged on an extension of the linear portion and a plurality of second contact protrusions arranged at respective positions off the extension of the linear portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, laving a photosensitive member, an exposure device to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member, a developer roller to supply a developer agent to the photosensitive member, a humidity sensor to detect humidity, and a controller, is provided. The controller executes a preparatory rotation controlling process, in which the photosensitive member and the developer roller are rotated prior to forming the electrostatic latent image, and an image-forming controlling process, in which the electrostatic latent image is formed on the photosensitive member. In the preparatory rotation controlling process, the developer roller is rotated at a first peripheral velocity under a condition of the humidity being lower than or equal to a predetermined value, and at a second peripheral velocity being higher than the first peripheral velocity under a condition of the humidity being higher than the predetermined value.