Abstract: To provide a paint composition capable of forming a coating film having a small graininess, having high flip-flop property, and having excellent chipping resistance and adhesion.

Abstract: An aspect of a drive controller controls drive of a three-phase motor, and includes an imbalance calculation unit that calculates an electrical imbalance between phases in the three-phase motor, a control value calculation unit that calculates current control values in respective axial directions of a rotating coordinate system of the three-phase motor according to a given target, and a balance compensation unit that reduces the imbalance by adding a compensation value to a current control value in an axial direction other than a q-axis of the current control values calculated by the control value calculation unit.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a support structure for supporting a load from a vehicle. The support structure includes an inner annular portion, an outer annular portion concentrically provided on an outer side of the inner annular portion, and a plurality of connecting portions which connect the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided in a tire circumferential direction independently of one another, the plurality of connecting portions are configured such that elongated plate-like first connecting portions and elongated plate-like second connecting portions are arrayed along the tire circumferential direction, a plate thickness is smaller than a plate width, a plate thickness direction is oriented to the tire circumferential direction, and a plate thickness at a tire radial direction inner end coupled to the inner annular portion is larger than a plate thickness at a tire radial direction center portion.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a support structure for supporting a load from a vehicle. The support structure includes an inner annular portion, an outer annular portion concentrically provided on an outer side of the inner annular portion, and a plurality of connecting portions which connect the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided in a tire circumferential direction independently of one another, the plurality of connecting portions are configured such that elongated plate-like first connecting portions and elongated plate-like second connecting portions are arrayed along the tire circumferential direction, a plate thickness is smaller than a plate width, a plate thickness direction is oriented to the tire circumferential direction, and a plate thickness at a tire radial direction inner end coupled to the inner annular portion is larger than a plate thickness at a tire radial direction center portion.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus converts power from a power supply to power to be supplied to a motor including windings for n phases where n is an integer equal to or greater than three. The power conversion apparatus includes a first inverter connected to one end of the winding for each phase of the motor, a second inverter connected to another end of the winding for each phase, and a control circuit to control an operation of each of the first and second inverters. The windings for the n phases include a winding for a first phase and a winding for a second phase, and the control circuit superimposes a correction wave to reduce an induced electric current induced in the winding for the second phase by passing electricity through the winding for the first phase on a fundamental wave to pass electricity through the winding for the second phase.

Abstract: A heat pipe that includes a pipe casing, a porous wick, and sealing members. Both end portions of the pipe casing are sealed by the sealing members, respectively. The sealing members each comprise a first metal foil and an intermetallic compound phase. The inside of the pipe casing is filled with a working fluid. The porous wick generates capillarity for the working fluid by a plurality of pores. The porous wick is provided inside the pipe casing. As a result, the pipe casing and the porous wick form a cavity extending in a longitudinal direction of the pipe casing. The porous wick comprises first metal grains, second metal grains, and an intermetallic compound phase.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery controller is combined with a rechargeable battery and used in an existing PV system. The controller includes a DC-DC converter, which allows power to be passed between a power line and a rechargeable battery, and a control unit, which determines whether maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control using hill climbing is being performed by a PCS based on an input voltage or current value of the PCS. The control unit regulates charge/discharge power of the rechargeable battery to allow input power of the PCS to be a target value based on the input voltage and current values of the PCS while MPPT control using hill climbing is performed, and maintains, in a period during which MPPT control using hill climbing is not performed, the charge/discharge power to be the power at a beginning of the period.

Abstract: The sheet-like rubber forming device has a die body which has an opening having a predetermined cross sectional shape, and a variable die lip which is arranged in a front side of the die body and can change the height of the opening. The variable die lip is constructed by a first movable body and a second movable body. The die lip control unit controls the variable die lip so as to drive the first movable body in an opening direction from a state in which the first movable body and the second movable body are closed when the forming is started, hold the positions of the first movable body and the second movable body after reaching a predetermined height, and drive the second movable body in a closing direction when the forming is finished.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a support structure for supporting a load from a vehicle. The support structure includes an inner annular portion, an outer annular portion concentrically provided on an outer side of the inner annular portion, and a plurality of connecting portions which connect the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided in a tire circumferential direction independently of one another, the plurality of connecting portions are configured such that elongated plate-like first connecting portions and elongated plate-like second connecting portions are arrayed along the tire circumferential direction, a plate thickness is smaller than a plate width, a plate thickness direction is oriented to the tire circumferential direction, and a plate thickness at a tire radial direction inner end coupled to the inner annular portion is larger than a plate thickness at a tire radial direction center portion.

Abstract: A power conversion device may include a first inverter to which one end of each phase winding of a motor is coupled, a second inverter to which the other end of each phase winding is coupled, and a switch circuit having at least one of a first switch element that switches between connection and disconnection of the first inverter to and from a ground, a first protection circuit being coupled in parallel to the first switch element, and a second switch element that switches between connection and disconnection of the second inverter to and from the ground, a second protection circuit being coupled in parallel to the second switch element.

Abstract: A storage battery control apparatus is provided with which a system capable of charging a storage battery using power from an electric power system and also charging the storage battery using power from a power generation system is inexpensively built. A storage battery control apparatus includes a switching control unit and a switch for connecting a CT to a current sensor connecting portion in a power generation system during a period during which a storage battery is charged using power from an electric power system, and for connecting a CT to the current sensor connecting portion during a period during which the storage battery is charged using power from the power generation system.

Abstract: A method for forming a cylindrical rubber member includes bringing a die 11 close to a forming drum 2, forming a winding start portion S1 by extruding a rubber S and simultaneously starting to rotate the forming drum 2 to gradually increase an extruding amount to an amount Q1 and gradually increase a distance between the die 11 and the forming drum 2 to a distance D2 corresponding to a desired thickness of the cylindrical rubber member, winding the rubber S by maintaining the extruding amount at the amount Q1, and maintaining the distance between the die 11 and the forming drum 2 at the distance D2, and forming a winding end portion S2 on the winding start portion S1 by maintaining the distance between the die 11 and the forming drum 2 at the distance D2 and gradually reducing the extruding amount from the amount Q1.

Abstract: A heat pipe that includes a pipe casing, a porous wick, and sealing members. Both end portions of the pipe casing are sealed by the sealing members, respectively. The sealing members each comprise a first metal foil and an intermetallic compound phase. The inside of the pipe casing is filled with a working fluid. The porous wick generates capillarity for the working fluid by a plurality of pores. The porous wick is provided inside the pipe casing. As a result, the pipe casing and the porous wick form a cavity extending in a longitudinal direction of the pipe casing. The porous wick comprises first metal grains, second metal grains, and an intermetallic compound phase.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery controller is combined with a rechargeable battery and used in an existing PV system. The controller includes a DC-DC converter, which allows power to be passed between a power line and a rechargeable battery, and a control unit, which determines whether maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control using hill climbing is being performed by a PCS based on an input voltage or current value of the PCS. The control unit regulates charge/discharge power of the rechargeable battery to allow input power of the PCS to be a target value based on the input voltage and current values of the PCS while MPPT control using hill climbing is performed, and maintains, in a period during which MPPT control using hill climbing is not performed, the charge/discharge power to be the power at a beginning of the period.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery controller combined with a rechargeable battery is used in an existing PV system. The rechargeable battery controller changes the charge/discharge power of the rechargeable battery, based on a measured input voltage value and a measured input current value of the PCS, to allow input power of the PCS to be nearer a target value by a power value less than a value obtained by multiplying a voltage variation under MPPT control using hill climbing and the measured input current value of the PCS.

Abstract: The sheet-like rubber forming device has a die body which has an opening having a predetermined cross sectional shape, and a variable die lip which is arranged in a front side of the die body and can change the height of the opening. The variable die lip is constructed by a first movable body and a second movable body. The die lip control unit controls the variable die lip so as to drive the first movable body in an opening direction from a state in which the first movable body and the second movable body are closed when the forming is started, hold the positions of the first movable body and the second movable body after reaching a predetermined height, and drive the second movable body in a closing direction when the forming is finished.

Abstract: A storage battery control apparatus is provided with which a system capable of charging a storage battery using power from an electric power system and also charging the storage battery using power from a power generation system is inexpensively built. A storage battery control apparatus includes a switching control unit and a switch for connecting a CT to a current sensor connecting portion in a power generation system during a period during which a storage battery is charged using power from an electric power system, and for connecting a CT to the current sensor connecting portion during a period during which the storage battery is charged using power from the power generation system.

Abstract: The sheet-like rubber forming device has a die body which has an opening having a predetermined cross sectional shape, and a variable die lip which is arranged in a front side of the die body and can change the height of the opening. The variable die lip is constructed by a first movable body and a second movable body. The die lip control unit controls the variable die lip so as to drive the first movable body in an opening direction from a state in which the first movable body and the second movable body are closed when the forming is started, hold the positions of the first movable body and the second movable body after reaching a predetermined height, and drive the second movable body in a closing direction when the forming is finished.

Abstract: The strobe device of the present invention is provided with a light source, a reflector, and an optical panel. Reflector is provided with a side opening and a front opening. The optical panel has: wedge-shaped side light guide sections that are integrally formed with both side portions of an incidence-side lens surface; and planar side reflecting sections that are integrally formed with both side portions of an object-side lens surface. Consequently, the strobe device having a reduced thickness and a reduced size is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup lens with a large focal depth from the center to the outer part of an image plane formed on an image sensor and capable of maintaining its focal depth within a practical range and thus suppressing a decline in the resolution. An image pickup lens 7 includes, in order from the object side to the image plane side, an aperture stop 5, a first lens 1 that is a biconvex lens having positive power, a second lens 2 that is a meniscus lens having negative power and whose lens surface facing the object side is convex, a third lens 3 that is a meniscus lens having positive power and whose lens surface facing the object side is concave, and a fourth lens 4 that is a biconcave lens having negative power. The image pickup lens 7 includes a multifocal lens on the lens surface of the first lens 1 facing the object side. D and Ymax satisfy the following conditional expression (1): 0?D/Ymax?0.