Abstract: A drive unit includes a drive motor, a speed reducer which outputs power of the drive motor at a reduced speed, and a drive unit case which accommodates the drive motor and the speed reducer. An output rotary shaft of the drive motor and an output rotary shaft of the speed reducer are arranged in parallel and aligned in a horizontal direction. The drive unit case has a motor chamber in which the drive motor is accommodated, and a gear chamber provided with an accommodating chamber in which the speed reducer is accommodated. The motor chamber and the gear chamber are divided by a dividing wall. An upper space and a lower space separated in an upper-lower direction by an upper-lower dividing wall extending from the dividing wall are formed between the motor chamber and the accommodating chamber.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes: a deceleration device; and a case including a gear chamber provided with an accommodation chamber that accommodates the deceleration device therein, in which the deceleration device includes an input shaft whose rotation axis direction extends in a horizontal direction, and a deceleration mechanism configured to reduce power input from the input shaft, and a wall portion of the case is provided with a first storage portion configured to store a lubricating liquid for lubricating the deceleration device, the first storage portion being arranged above a rotation axis of the input shaft and below an upper end of the deceleration mechanism in an upper-lower direction, and arranged at a position where at least a part thereof overlaps the deceleration mechanism in an axial direction of the input shaft.

Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor comprises: fixed contact pieces 3 including fixed contacts 9; an electromagnet unit 5 to which a movable contact piece 4, the movable contact piece 4 including movable contacts 10, the movable contacts 10 coming into contact with and being separated from the fixed contacts, is joined via a contact support 11; and a hermetically sealed container 2 configured to contain the fixed contact pieces, the movable contact piece, and the electromagnet unit in the same space, wherein in the electromagnet unit 5, unit-side joining portions 25a and 25b, the unit-side joining portions 25a and 25b being joined to container-side joining portions 33 and 36 arranged on the hermetically sealed container from the direction of movement of the movable contact piece, respectively, are arranged, and flat plate-shaped spacers 34 and 37 by which an inter-contact gap G between the fixed contacts and the movable contacts is adjusted are arranged interposed between the container-side joining portion and the u

Abstract: A power transmission device includes: a first rotation member; a first rotation shaft supporting the first rotation member; and a case rotatably supporting the first rotation shaft, in which the case includes a rotation member accommodation chamber accommodating the first rotation shaft and the first rotation member, a first storage portion provided at a bottom portion of the rotation member accommodation chamber and configured to store a lubricating liquid such that a portion of the first rotation member is immersed therein, and a second storage portion provided above the first rotation shaft in the rotation member accommodation chamber and configured to store the lubricating liquid.

Abstract: A power transmission device includes: a planetary gear mechanism; and a case accommodating the planetary gear mechanism, in which the planetary gear mechanism includes an input shaft, a sun gear, a plurality of planetary gears, a planetary carrier, and a ring gear, the sun gear is an external gear provided on the input shaft, a gear member is attached to one end of the input shaft, a baffle plate extending between the gear member and the sun gear is attached to the case, and at least a part of the gear member and the planetary gear mechanism is immersed in a lubricating liquid stored in a lower portion of the case.

Abstract: A hydrogen production system includes a hydrogen generation device to generate hydrogen, and a compressor to compress the hydrogen. The hydrogen generation device and the compressor are connected by a first line. The compressor and a hydrogen utilization equipment to utilize the hydrogen compressed by the compressor are connected by a second line. A hydrogen storage unit to store the hydrogen compressed by the compressor is connected to the first line by a first bypass line. The first bypass line has a first control valve to control a flow of the hydrogen in the first bypass line.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a carriage, a recording head, a frame, and a guide member. The conveyance unit conveys a sheet in a conveyance direction. The carriage moves in a scanning direction crossing the conveyance direction and has a first abutment portion and a second abutment portion higher in position than the first abutment portion. The recording head is mounted on the carriage, arranged to face a sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and ejects a liquid onto the conveyed sheet to record an image. The frame has a first sliding portion in abutment with the first abutment portion and has a second sliding portion in abutment with the second abutment portion. The guide member supports the carriage and is fixed to the frame at a position separated from the first sliding portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, controller, memory, wireless communication function section, and extension register. The controller controls the nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. The memory is serving as a work area of the controller. The wireless communication module has a wireless communication function. The extension register is provided in the memory. The controller processes a first command to read data from the extension register, and a second command to write data to the extension register. The extension register records, an information specifying the type of the wireless communication function in a specific page, and an address information indicating a region on the extension register to which the wireless communication function is assigned.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a conductive wire includes conducting a continuous casting of a conductive alloy material at a casting rate of not less than 40 mm/min and not more than 200 mm/min to form a conductive wire with a primary diameter, the conductive alloy material containing not more than 1.0 mass % of an added metal element, reducing a diameter of the conductive wire with the primary diameter to form a conductive wire with a secondary diameter, heat treating the conductive wire with the secondary diameter so that tensile strength thereof is reduced to not less than 90% and less than 100% of tensile strength before the heat treating, and reducing a diameter of the conductive wire with the secondary diameter and the reduced tensile strength to generate a logarithmic strain of 7.8 to 12.0 therein to form a conductive wire with a tertiary diameter.

Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one processor that identifies a cyclic change related to an arm swing of a user from a three-dimensional acceleration measured by a first measurer. The at least one processor defines a two-dimensional plane containing a plane of the arm swing of the user from the three-dimensional acceleration measured at a wrist of the user, detects the cyclic change as a motion on an arc centered at a shoulder of the user in the two-dimensional plane, and obtains an angle of the arm swing.

Abstract: An electronic device includes at least one processor that identifies a cyclic change related to an arm swing of a user from a three-dimensional acceleration measured by a measurer. The at least one processor defines a two-dimensional plane containing a plane of the arm swing of the user from the three-dimensional acceleration measured at a wrist of the user, detects the cyclic change as a motion on an arc centered at a shoulder of the user in the two-dimensional plane, obtains, from the three-dimensional acceleration, a direction of a line segment connecting the wrist and the shoulder, and obtains a bending angle of an elbow of the user based on the line segment.

Abstract: A polyamide-imide material comprises an amidophenyl-ethyl-imide moiety or alternatively an imidophenyl-ethyl-amide moiety as depicted in formulas (I) or (II) in the disclosure. The polyamide-imide material can have selected mechanical properties, such as a tensile modulus between at least 3.5 GPa and at least 7.8 GPa, a glass transition temperature between at least 180° C. and at least 305° C., an elongation at break of a film of the polyamide-imide material having a thickness of 25 micrometer (±5 micrometer) of not more than 15%, or a folding endurance of the film over a pin having a radius of 1 mm between at least 10,000 folds and at least 1,000,000 folds. The polyamide-imide film can have high transparency of visible light, a low yellow index, and a low haze.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical film comprising a polyimide-based resin having a constitutional unit derived from an aliphatic diamine, wherein the optical film has a glass transition temperature of 165° C. or higher and an optical transmittance at 350 nm of 10% or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an optical film, the method comprising: step (I) for dissolving a polyimide-based resin in a solvent to prepare a varnish; step (II) for applying the varnish onto a substrate to form a coating film; and step (III) for drying the coating film to form a film, wherein the polyimide-based resin contains a constitutional unit derived from an aliphatic diamine, the solvent in step (I) has a moisture absorption speed per unit area of 25% by mass/h m2 or more as measured by a Karl Fischer method, and a time T from the completion of the formation of the coating film in step (II) to the start of the drying of the coating film in step (III) satisfies the following equation (A): T < 0.0018 Vs ( A ) wherein Vs represents a moisture absorption speed per minute (% by mass/min) of the solvent as determined by a Karl Fischer method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a long optical film, the method comprising a step for preparing a varnish by dissolving a polyimide-based resin in a solvent, wherein the polyimide-based resin contains a constitutional unit derived from an aliphatic diamine, and a moisture absorption speed per unit area of the solvent is 25% by mass/h·m2 or less as determined by a Karl Fischer method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical film having a glass transition temperature of 165° C. or higher, an optical transmittance at 350 nm of 10% or less, an in-plane retardation of 30 nm or less, and a retardation in a thickness direction of 100 nm or less.

Abstract: A burner device for supplying a mixture of a fuel gas and a combustion-supporting gas into a combustion region includes: a mixing path configured to inject the mixture from a downstream end portion of the mixing path into the combustion region; a fuel gas injection nozzle configured to inject the fuel gas into the mixing path toward the combustion region; and a combustion-supporting gas supply swirler configured to inject the combustion-supporting gas such that at least a part of the combustion-supporting gas collides directly with the fuel gas injected from the fuel gas injection nozzle, in a direction of a tangent line that is tangent to a fuel injection hole of the fuel gas injection nozzle on a cross-section.

Abstract: Provided is a device for manufacturing a bent pipe, the device being capable of reducing buckling. The device including: an inner core metal arranged inside a first pipe; and a bending mold to bend the first pipe. The inner core metal includes: an inner core metal body; a first inner movable portion coupled to the inner core metal body and swingable around a first rocking shaft orthogonal to a central axis of the inner core metal body; and a second inner movable portion coupled to the first inner movable portion and swingable around a second rocking shaft parallel to the first rocking shaft. The first inner movable portion has an enlarging diameter portion enlarged in diameter toward the second inner movable portion. The bending mold causes an inner surface of the first pipe to press the first inner movable portion and the second inner movable portion.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is a manufacturing device by which the bent pipe is obtained by bending a double pipe. The device includes inner and intermediate core metals, a bending mold, and a controller. The controller executes: a first bending process in which first and second pipes are bent by the bending mold in a first direction in a first area of the double pipe where the inner and intermediate core metals are placed; a second bending process in which the first and second pipes are bent, after the first bending process, by the bending mold in a second direction in a second area of the double pipe where the inner and intermediate core metals are placed; and a first bending-back process in which the second pipe is bent, after the first bending process, in a direction opposite to the first direction in the first area.

Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is a manufacturing device by which the bent pipe is obtained by bending a double pipe. The device includes inner and intermediate core metals, a bending mold, and a controller. The controller executes: a first bending process in which first and second pipes are bent by the bending mold in a first direction in a first area of the double pipe where the inner and intermediate core metals are placed; a second bending process in which the first and second pipes are bent, after the first bending process, by the bending mold in a second direction in a second area of the double pipe where the inner and intermediate core metals are placed; and a first bending-back process in which the second pipe is bent, after the first bending process, in a direction opposite to the first direction in the first area.