Abstract: A water-inflow prevention device is provided by installing a closing lid 6 for blocking a duct 2 of an air pressure regulating valve 1, which regulates air pressure inside a cabin 101. A buoyant body 9 is attached to the disc-shaped closing lid 6 installed to the duct 2 so as to be rotatable around a rotation shaft 7. The buoyant body 9 receives a buoyant force from water when immersed in the water. Since the side of the closing lid 6 in which the buoyant body 9 is attached is thereby floated in the water, the closing lid 6 automatically rotates around the rotation shaft 7 so as to close a ventilation port 2a.

Abstract: A discharge electrode, a thin-film deposition apparatus, and a solar cell fabrication method, which suppress the generation of a film thickness distribution and a film quality distribution, are provided. The discharge electrode includes two lateral structures 20 that are substantially parallel to each other and extend in an X direction; and a plurality of longitudinal structures 21a that are provided between the two lateral structures, are substantially parallel to each other, and extend in a Y direction substantially orthogonal to the X direction. The longitudinal structures 21a each include an electrode main body 35 whose one end 35a is connected to one of the lateral structures 20 and whose the other end 35b is connected to the other lateral structure 20; a gas pipe 41 disposed in a gas-pipe accommodating space 36; and a porous body 40. An opening 38 opens to a substrate 8 and is covered with the porous body 40. A gas diffusion path 37 connects the gas-pipe accommodating space 36 and the opening 38.

Abstract: An acrylic rubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of acrylic rubber containing cross-linkable groups and 2 to 40 parts by weight of tri(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate has quite an unexpected effect on prevention of fixation of its vulcanized rubber moldings to metallic materials or resin moldings when brought into direct contact with the latter due to the presence of tri(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate in the acrylic rubber containing cross-linkable groups.