Abstract: Provided is a cylindrical puffed snack food comprising a plurality of inner rope parts and a plurality of outer rope parts, wherein the inner rope parts and the outer rope parts are formed by using a die head comprising a circular inner nozzle part and an annular outer nozzle part provided around the inner nozzle part, wherein the inner nozzle part comprises a plurality of inner nozzle recesses, which have arc-shaped cross sections and are disposed around an outer circumferential surface facing the outer nozzle part in the circumferential direction, the outer nozzle part comprises a plurality of outer nozzle recesses, which have arc-shaped cross sections and are disposed around an inner circumferential surface facing the inner nozzle part in the circumferential direction, the outer nozzle part is provided in such a way as to be continuously rotatable around the inner nozzle part, and a total length of the arcs of the plurality of inner nozzle recesses is ? or more and ¾ or less of a length of a circumference

Abstract: To achieve an intermediate lock state in a short period when an engine is stopped and improve the accuracy of confirmation of the intermediate lock state, an engine valve timing control apparatus includes a variable valve timing mechanism configured to vary engine valve timing, and an intermediate lock mechanism configured to restrict relative rotation positions of a first and a second rotor of the valve timing mechanism at an intermediate lock position for starting the engine. Upon detection of an engine stop request, the valve timing mechanism and the intermediate lock mechanism are driven and controlled for establishing an intermediate lock state. When a predetermined period from detection of the engine stop request has expired without detecting the intermediate lock state within the predetermined period, an engine stopping process is executed. Even after the engine stopping process has been executed, monitoring of the intermediate lock state is continued.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a testing device of a turbine blade includes: a non-compressive elastic medium brought into close contact with a platform of the turbine blade in a state fastened to a turbine rotor; a probe which has piezoelectric elements arranged in an array and transmits ultrasound waves toward a fastening portion of the turbine blade through the elastic medium and receives echo waves; and a display portion for imaging an internal region of the fastening portion on the basis of the echo waves and displaying the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tire including a side portion (104), a black rubber layer (113), a stain-preventing rubber layer (112) disposed adjacent to the black rubber layer, and a colored layer (111) disposed on the surface of the stain-preventing rubber layer and exposed on the outer surface of the side portion; a tire including a colored layer (207) disposed on the outer surface of the tire, and an underlayer rubber (208) disposed on the tire-interior side of the colored layer, wherein the colored layer is formed by curing a UV-curable paint; and a tire including a colored layer (302) on the surface of the side portion (301) of the tire, wherein the colored layer includes a marking (303).

Abstract: A reproducing device includes a light generation and emission unit that obtains signal light as reflection light, which reflects recording signals of a land and a groove, by irradiating an optical recording medium with light and generates reference light so as to emit the signal light and the reference light in a superposed manner, a detection optical system that generates a first combination of signal light and reference light, a second combination of signal light and reference light, a third combination of signal light and reference light, and a fourth combination of signal light and reference light respectively, a light receiving unit in which the first to fourth combinations of signal light and reference light are respectively received by first to fourth light receiving elements, and a reproduction unit that reproduces the recording signals of the land and the groove on the basis of first to fourth light receiving signals.

Abstract: A hydraulic shock absorbing apparatus includes: an inner tube; and an outer tube that is placed outside the inner tube, in which a space is defined between an outer circumferential surface of the inner tube and an inner circumferential surface of the outer tube, and a protruding portion protruding from the outer circumferential surface of the inner tube toward the outer tube or a protruding portion protruding from the inner circumferential surface of the outer tube toward the inner tube is provided in the space, and the protruding portion is formed over an entire circumference of the outer circumferential surface of the inner tube or the inner circumferential surface of the outer tube, and has a waveform when viewed from a direction crossing the outer circumferential surface or the inner circumferential surface.

Abstract: A pressure shock absorbing apparatus includes: a first cylinder; a second cylinder that is placed outside the first cylinder to form a liquid storage unit; a partitioning member that is disposed in such a manner as to be movable in an axial direction inside the first cylinder to partition a space inside the first cylinder; a throttle mechanism that is disposed in a side portion of the second cylinder, and includes a throttle unit that throttles a flow path cross section of a liquid to discharge the liquid taken in from the first cylinder toward the liquid storage unit while passing the liquid through the throttle unit; and a suppression unit that is held by the throttle mechanism at a liquid discharge point between the throttle mechanism and the liquid storage unit to suppress air bubbles in the liquid in the liquid storage unit.

Abstract: An ultrasonic test equipment includes: a signal generating mechanism that generates a voltage waveform; an ultrasonic transmitting mechanism that excites ultrasonic vibrations having a lower frequency than a predetermined frequency to an object to be tested; an ultrasonic receiving mechanism that receives an ultrasonic response from the object to be tested; an AD converting mechanism that digitizes the received ultrasonic waveform; an analyzing mechanism that performs frequency analysis of the digital ultrasonic waveform digitized by the AD converting mechanism; an evaluating mechanism that extracts a variation of a nonlinear ultrasonic component from a frequency component of the digital ultrasonic wave obtained by the frequency analysis, compares the variation with defect data information in a defect information database, identifies a physical quantity of defect information of the object to be tested, and evaluates a defect in the object to be tested; and a control mechanism that partly or entirely controls

Abstract: To achieve an intermediate lock state in a short period when an engine is stopped and improve the accuracy of confirmation of the intermediate lock state, an engine valve timing control apparatus includes a variable valve timing mechanism configured to vary engine valve timing, and an intermediate lock mechanism configured to restrict relative rotation positions of a first and a second rotor of the valve timing mechanism at an intermediate lock position for starting the engine. Upon detection of an engine stop request, the valve timing mechanism and the intermediate lock mechanism are driven and controlled for establishing an intermediate lock state. When a predetermined period from detection of the engine stop request has expired without detecting the intermediate lock state within the predetermined period, an engine stopping process is executed. Even after the engine stopping process has been executed, monitoring of the intermediate lock state is continued.

Abstract: The present invention provides an impregnation type puffed food in which an oil and fat confectionery material is impregnated into a food material to be impregnated, wherein the food material to be impregnated is a puffed confectionery having a surface thereof coated with a saccharide layer. Such an impregnation type puffed food has a novel texture, which is a “crunchy” hard texture combined with a texture of an oil and fat confectionery melting out of the inside.

Abstract: An optical recording medium includes a first transparent film layer, a second transparent film layer, and a recording material layer sandwiched between the first transparent film layer and the second transparent film layer. The recording material layer includes a hologram recording material.

Abstract: A reproducing device includes a light generation and emission unit that obtains signal light as reflection light, which reflects recording signals of a land and a groove, by irradiating an optical recording medium with light and generates reference light so as to emit the signal light and the reference light in a superposed manner, a detection optical system that generates a first combination of signal light and reference light, a second combination of signal light and reference light, a third combination of signal light and reference light, and a fourth combination of signal light and reference light respectively, a light receiving unit in which the first to fourth combinations of signal light and reference light are respectively received by first to fourth light receiving elements, and a reproduction unit that reproduces the recording signals of the land and the groove on the basis of first to fourth light receiving signals.

Abstract: Provided are a tire having a small difference in a loss tangent (tan ?) at a tire tread outer surface position and that at a middle position, a tread for a retread tire having an even vulcanization degree in a whole tread rubber area, a tire having the tread for the retread tire, and a method for manufacturing the tire. The tire satisfies the following formula: ?0.05?(tan ?a?tan ?b)/tan ?b?0.05, where (tan ?a) represents a loss tangent of strain at 2% at 25° C. in a portion (a) within 1 mm deep from a tire tread outer surface in a direction perpendicular to a tread surface, and (tan ?b) represents a loss tangent of strain at 2% at 25° C. in a portion (b) within 2 mm from a median center between a tread portion outer surface and a bottom surface in the direction perpendicular to the tread surface.

Abstract: A reproducing device includes a homodyne detection part that carries out homodyne detection by using reflected light of first light obtained from a recording layer as signal light and using reflected light of second light by a mirror as reference light, a signal reproducing part that obtains a reproduced signal based on the signal light, based on a result of homodyne detection, and a one-axis actuator that drives the mirror. The reproducing device further includes an optical path length servo control part that carries out driving control of the one-axis actuator in such a manner that the optical path length difference between the signal light and the reference light is kept constant, and an offset giving part that gives an offset that reduces or enlarges the amplitude difference of the reproduced signal of marks that are recorded in the recording layer and have sizes different from each other.

Abstract: A projector 22 projects video onto a surface of an infrared light reflection member 26 following control by a PC 20. A detection unit 24 includes an infrared light emitter 28 and a depth camera 30. Since the infrared light which is reflected by the infrared light reflection member 26 does not return to the depth camera 30, the infrared light reflection member 26 is an area whose distance is unmeasurable. Further, a distance can be obtained outside the infrared light reflection member 26 since the infrared light is diffusely reflected. This allows obtainment of the relative relationship between the position of an outer periphery of the infrared light reflection member 26 and the position of an object 32. Accordingly, a touched position can be calculated, and a process on the basis of that is possible.

Abstract: A laser maintenance apparatus including a laser irradiation device which includes a first optical element for irradiating detection laser light on a test object to detect an ultrasonic wave; a second optical element for irradiating generation laser light on a test object so as to excite the ultrasonic wave; and an optical system container for containing the first and second optical element. The reflection direction of the first optical element and the reflection direction of the second optical element are arranged at an angle along the circumferential direction of the test object. The light reflected by the first optical element is irradiated at a position different than light reflected by the second optical element, and the laser irradiation positions of the light reflected by the first and second optical elements are different in the axial direction and the circumferential direction of the test object.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an ultrasonic flaw detection device is provided with: an ultrasonic probe, which applies ultrasonic waves, by driving a plurality of ultrasonic elements, to a test object to be inspected, and which receives reflected ultrasonic waves from the test object; and an analysis unit, which analyzes the signals of the reflected ultrasonic waves received by the ultrasonic probe, and which calculates the flaw detection results. The analysis unit calculates the flaw detection results using an ultrasonic wave propagation path obtained on the basis of the surface information of the test object having the ultrasonic waves applied thereto, thereby obtaining highly accurate detection results even the surface of the test object is formed in complex shape.

Abstract: There is provided an optical pickup including: an optical-system having an object-lens illuminating a first light for information recording or reproducing on a recording layer as a target and a second light on an optical-recording medium including a reference plane having a reflection-layer and the recording-layer at a layer position different from that of the reference-plane and on which information recording is performed through mark formation, and a focus-aligned-position-adjusting unit adjusting a focus-aligned position of the first light through the object-lens by changing collimation thereof incident to the object-lens; and a focusing-mechanism driving the object-lens in a focusing direction, wherein, when a depth of focus ?/NA2 defined by a wavelength ? of the first light and a numerical aperture NA of the object lens is set to ? and the maximum-surface-blur range is denoted by D, the optical-system is designed so that a use magnification ratio ? satisfies |?|??(D/?).

Abstract: An ultrasonic flaw detector including an ultrasonic probe for emitting an ultrasonic wave on an object to be inspected and receiving a reflected ultrasonic wave from the object, a drive element control unit for controlling a plurality of ultrasonic elements to emit an ultrasonic wave on the ultrasonic probe and to control a reflected ultrasonic wave from the ultrasonic probe, and a calculation unit for obtaining, by using a refraction angle of the ultrasonic wave at a time of the ultrasonic wave entering the object, an incident position of the ultrasonic wave on a surface of the object, and a surface shape of a surface of the object at the incident position, the incident angle of the ultrasonic wave entering the incident position, and obtaining a plurality of ultrasonic elements to be driven, based on the incident position and the incident angle.

Abstract: A pickup apparatus includes a light source; a light separator; an object lens that concentrates the light which penetrated the light separator on the optical recording medium; a movable lens; and a light sensing element that receives the reflected light from the optical recording medium separated by the light separator, wherein a coma aberration generated by the transverse shift of the object lens is corrected by a coma aberration which is generated by the deviation of a spherical aberration generated in an optical path from the light source to the object lens and a spherical aberration generated in an optical path from the object lens to a light concentration position on the optical recording medium which are due to the transverse shift.