Abstract: The present invention provides a solid electrolytic capacitor having a structure that relieves thermal stress, prevents leakage current, exhibits low impedance and ensures high reliability. The solid electrolytic capacitor element has a valve-acting metal substrate with a dielectric film and an edge part acting as an anode, an insulating layer circumferentially provided on the substrate, a solid electrolyte layer and an electrically conducting layer having a carbon paste layer and a metal powder-containing electrically conducting layer formed in this order on the entire substrate surface opposite to the anode with respect to the insulating layer and acting as a cathode. The electrically conducting layer is provided within a region of the carbon paste layer or with a spacing from the cathode side edge part of the insulating layer. The present invention also provides a method for producing the element, and a solid electrolytic capacitor using the element.

Abstract: A valve system for an engine including a valve resting mechanism provided between an engine valve and a valve lifter supported by a cylinder head. The valve resting mechanism can place the engine valve into a resting state. The valve resting mechanism has a pin holder which includes a sliding hole having an axis perpendicular to the axis of a valve lifter, and an insertion hole for allowing a valve stem to pass therethrough. The pin holder is slidably fitted in the valve lifter. A slide pin is slidably fitted in the sliding hole, with a hydraulic force and a spring force applied to both ends of the slide pin. A containing hole is coaxially connectable to the insertion hole, and a rotation stopping means for stopping axial rotation of the slide pin is provided between the pin holder and the slide pin.

Abstract: A valve system for an engine including a valve resting mechanism provided between an engine valve and a valve lifter supported by a cylinder head. The valve resting mechanism can place the engine valve into a resting state. The valve resting mechanism has a pin holder which includes a sliding hole having an axis perpendicular to the axis of a valve lifter, and an insertion hole for allowing a valve stem to pass therethrough. The pin holder is slidably fitted in the valve lifter. A slide pin is slidably fitted in the sliding hole, with a hydraulic force and a spring force applied to both ends of the slide pin. A containing hole is coaxially connectable to the insertion hole, and a rotation stopping means for stopping axial rotation of the slide pin is provided between the pin holder and the slide pin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a solid electrolytic multilayer capacitor excellent in yield and capability, and provides a monolayer capacitor element for use in the manufacture of the solid electrolytic multilayer capacitor. In the multilayer solid electrolyte capacitor of the present invention, a solid electrolytic multilayer capacitor 25 in which a plurality of monolayer capacitor elements 7 are stacked such that the anode areas 11 aligned in the same direction are stacked and bonded onto a lead frame 9 on the anode side and the cathode areas are stacked and bonded onto a lead frame 8 on the cathode side so as to have an unfolded fan shape widening toward the distal end of the cathode area from the anode area 11 side, to provide a multilayer capacitor element 19 and the periphery of the multilayer capacitor element 19 that are covered and sealed with an armoring resin 23.

Abstract: An electric current is passed through a mixed solution containing a saccharide(s) and an organogermanium compound, in a compartment whose anode side is defined by an anion exchange membrane and whose cathode side is defined by a cation exchange membrane, to separate and remove said organogermanium compound. In the present invention, an organogermanium compound can be very effectively separated and recovered from a mixed solution containing a saccharide(s) and said organogermanium compound. The present invention is particularly effective for separation and recovery of an organogermanium compound from a reaction mixture obtained when a compound having an aldose structure is isomerized into a compound having a ketose structure in the presence of said organogermanium compound.

Abstract: In an engine valve drive control device, a cam lobe is removably engaged with a cam shaft of a valve actuating line of an engine. The cam lobe is rotated, when engaged, together with the cam shaft to drive a valve. Free rotation of the disengaged cam lobe is halted by a cam rotation halting device to leave the valve inactive. The cam lobe is made axially slidable in the axial direction with respect to the cam shaft, and the engagement/disengagement of the cam lobe with/from the cam shaft are switched according to the sliding motion of the cam lobe.

Abstract: A four-stroke cycle internal-combustion engine having two large- and small-diameter intake valves and two large- and small-diameter exhaust valves in one cylinder and mounted with a valve-operating mechanism on either of the intake valve side and the exhaust valve side. Each valve-operating mechanism comprises a first valve-operating cam of a narrow total valve-opening angle and a low lift, a second valve-operating cam of a wide total valve-opening angle and a high lift, a rocker arm for the small-diameter valve in direct engagement with the first valve-operating cam, a rocker arm for the large-diameter valve, and a connecting means capable of simultaneously operatively connecting the second valve-operating cam with the rocker arm for the small-diameter valve and the rocker arm for the large-diameter valve. In each cylinder at least three spark plugs are mounted. The combustion chamber is formed high on one side and low on the other side.

Abstract: A cover thread cutter for a multi-needle sewing machine, the hook of the thread cutter retracts at an oblique angle above a curved cover thread laying finger and captures the cover thread at a position above the curved cover thread laying finger. While pulling the captured cover thread up to the cutting position, it is held against a specified needle, as in ordinary seam forming, and the thread end is held in this state after being cut off.

Abstract: A taped chaining thread sewing device is designed to sew by operation of an overedge sewing machine a tape into the upper surface of the fabric sent into the needle location of the sewing machine, and also sew the chaining thread cut off from the preceding fabric into the lower surface of the fabric. The tape is cut off together with the unnecessary edge portion of the fabric by a cutter at the start of sewing of the leading end from the sewing part on the fabric. Before the final end of the fabric passes the cutter, a tape guide of the taped chaining thread sewing device moves, and therefore the unsewn portion of the tape is cut off together with the unnecessary edge portion of the fabric from the sewn part by the cutter. By the chaining thread sewn into the beginning part of sewing of the fabric, it is not necessary to perform any particular bar tacking job at the beginning of sewing in a separate process.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods to take advantage of the exhaust gas pulses in an exhaust system of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine to increase the volumetric efficiency over the complete operating range of the engine. It solves the problems of other systems which are only able to gain a beneficial effect from the exhaust gas pulses over a limited range of the engine operating speeds, by providing a means of varying the exhaust pipe lengths, combinations, and cross-sectional area of the exhaust passages of the multi-cylinder internal combustion engine. By this means it provides an exhaust system in which the exhaust gas pulse frequencies can be varied over the entire operating range of the engine to obtain desirable pulse frequencies matching the cylinder exhaust timing for efficient extraction of the exhaust gases, improvement in volumetric efficiency and a higher maximum engine speed.