Abstract: A rear console box in accordance with the present invention is for a vehicle. The vehicle includes a floor, seat rows on the floor, and an aisle between the seat rows. The rear console box is disposed in the aisle. The rear console box includes a console box body, a hinge configured to connect the console box body with respect to the floor and thereby allow the console box body to pivot between a horizontal position and a raised position. The horizontal position is in the aisle and is substantially horizontal relative to the floor. The raised position is outside the aisle and in front of the aisle. The rear console box also includes a support member configured to extend between the console box body and the floor. The support member supports the console box body and thereby holds the raised position of the console box body.

Abstract: A rear console box in accordance with the present invention is for a vehicle. The vehicle includes a floor, seat rows on the floor, and an aisle between the seat rows. The rear console box is disposed in the aisle. The rear console box includes a console box body, a hinge configured to connect the console box body with respect to the floor and thereby allow the console box body to pivot between a horizontal position and a raised position. The horizontal position is in the aisle and is substantially horizontal relative to the floor. The raised position is outside the aisle and in front of the aisle. The rear console box also includes a support member configured to extend between the console box body and the floor. The support member supports the console box body and thereby holds the raised position of the console box body.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for producing a dielectric substance having excellent dielectric properties and being biodegradable, such method comprising subjecting silk protein to molding.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lanthanum sulfide or cerium sulfide sintered compact usable as a thermoelectric conversion material having a high Seebeck coefficient. The sintered compact has a chemical composition of La2S3 or Ce2S3, and a crystal structure consisting of a mixture of beta and gamma phases having a Seebeck coefficient higher than that of the crystal structure otherwise being in gamma single-phase. The sintered compact is produced by preparing a beta-phase La2S3 or alpha-phase Ce2S3 powder of raw material having a high purity with a suppressed carbon impurity concentration and a given range of oxygen concentration, charging the raw material into a carbon die having an inner surface covered with an h-BN applied thereon, and hot-pressing the charged material under vacuum to form a mixture of beta and gamma phases having a high Seebeck coefficient.

Abstract: A high-dielectric material which is especially useful as a material for a high-capacitance capacitor and which has a high dielectric constant is provided. The high-dielectric material is composed of a sintered body of a rare-earth sulfide, the high-dielectric material having a crystal structure of tetragonal ? type, a chemical composition represented by Ln2S3 (where Ln represents a rare-earth metal), a frequency domain within the range of 0.5 kHz to 1,000 kHz, and a value of relative dielectric constant of more than 1,000 at room temperature.

Abstract: A refrigerator of the present invention includes a refrigerating cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expander and an evaporator and filled with a flammable refrigerant, a load detector detecting a change in load of the compressor, and a control device detecting a damage which is a cause for leak of the refrigerant from the refrigerating cycle, based on a detection output of the load detector.

Abstract: A cooling device for a heat-generating electronic component such as a semiconductor integrated circuit element is provided. In particular, a cooling device using a thermoelectric conversion material is provided. A cooling device for an electronic component includes a thermoelectric conversion material disposed between two electrodes that function as a cathode and an anode and are electrically short-circuited. The thermoelectric conversion material is either a p-type material or an n-type material or a combination of p-type and n-type materials arranged alternately in series. This cooling device is brought into contact with an electronic component requiring cooling so that one electrode side in contact with the thermoelectric conversion material becomes a low-temperature side and the other electrode side becomes a high-temperature side.

Abstract: A refrigerator-freezer is described, in which refrigerant leakage from the refrigeration cycle can be safely detected. The refrigerator-freezer comprises: a refrigeration cycle formed by a compressor, a capillary, an evaporator and an accumulator connected in series, and filled with a flammable refrigerant; a cooling fan configured to blow the cold air cooled by the evaporator in the refrigerator-freezer; and a refrigerant leakage detection system configured to detect leakage of the flammable refrigerant, wherein the refrigerant leakage detection system is provided with a temperature sensor configured to measure the temperature of a refrigerant conduit of the evaporator and judges that the flammable refrigerant is leaking in the low pressure side of the refrigeration cycle when the temperature is detected by the temperature sensor with the compressor being halted is no lower than a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A refrigerator of the present invention includes a refrigerating cycle including a compressor (24), a condenser (25), an expander (30, 31) and an evaporator (16, 20) and filled with a flammable refrigerant, a load detector (41) detecting a change in load of the compressor (25), and a control device (43) detecting a damage which is a cause for leak of the refrigerant from the refrigerating cycle, based on a detection output of the load detector (41).

Abstract: A compiler optimizing device provided with an optimizing section comprising an update variable control table to control the update variables to be changed in relation to the functions contained in the loop invariant expression, an update variable extraction section to extract the update variables for each function contained in the loop invariant expression for registration to the update variable control table, an update variable review section to register the variables which are, when a certain function in the loop invariant expression calls another function, updated by the called function to the update variable control table as the update variables of the calling function, and a reference loop invariant expression transfer section to transfer the loop invariant expressions out of the loop based on the update variables recognized in access with the update variable control table.

Abstract: A hot rolling line is constructed by a pair or a plurality of pairs of rolling rolls disposed opposingly on an upper side and on a lower side of a workpiece (1) to be rolled that is pinched in between the rollers. A descaling apparatus (5) has jet flow nozzles disposed so that two jetted flows, being liquid, gas or plasma, are opposing flows so as to collide with the surface of a strip on the upstream side of the rolling rolls and then collide with each other. The jet flow nozzles are disposed, so as to incline in a direction to face each other so that the angle of inclination is 15.degree. to 60.degree. from the horizontal direction of the strip surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for winding a wire around a toroidal core is disclosed which includes a core holder for supporting the toroidal core, moving the same in the directions of first and second axes and rotating the same, first and second clamps for clamping one end of the wire, a clamp driver for holding the first and second clamps and moving the position thereof in the directions of the first and second axes and rotating the same, a wire holder positioned near the toroidal core for supporting the wire, a detector for detecting the position of the wire and the aperture of the toroidal core and a control device for controlling the core holder and the clamp driver by the output from the detector.

Abstract: A refrigerator has a main body. A compressor is provided in the bottom portion of the body, and a receiving box for housing electric appliances is arranged in the body above the compressor. A thermosiphon for conveying the heat from the compressor to the receiving box is provided in the body. The thermosiphon includes a heat receiving portion located in the vicinity of the compressor, an upper portion located in the vicinity of the receiving box, an advancing path extending from the heat receiving portion to the upper portion, and a returning path extending from the upper portion to the heat receiving portion. The upper portion is adhered to the body by a tape of aluminum foil, thereby having heat radiation efficiency higher than that of the advancing portion.