Abstract: An assembling device (10) includes a first arranging section (11), a second arranging section (12), eighteen support arms (13) for supporting coil segments (4), a feeding part (14), and a controller (16). When the controller (16) drives a motor (35) to rotate the feeding part (14) in a counterclockwise direction D1, a pressing roller (14c) rolls in the direction D1 along a first guide portion (11a), and presses a base part (21) of the eighteenth support arm (13) in the direction D1. Thus, the first to eighteenth support arms (13) are rotated in the direction D1 to insert the base parts (21) of the first to eighteenth support arms (13) sequentially in a second guide portion (12a) of the second arranging section (12), so that the first to eighteenth support arms (13) are rotated in a clockwise direction D2 to assemble the coil segments (4) while overlapping with one another.

Abstract: A turbocharger impeller includes: a cylindrical boss portion disposed around a rotary axis; a hub portion connected to the boss portion and extends in a radial direction of the rotary axis; and a blade portion protruding from the boss portion and the hub portion toward a tip end side in the direction of the rotary axis and the radial direction. At least a part of an outer peripheral part of the hub portion in the radial direction or a part of the blade portion is provided with a resin second section and the second section is bonded to an aluminum first section. The turbocharger impeller includes the aluminum first section and the resin second section.

Abstract: An on-vehicle motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit, an electric motor, and an inverter device. The inverter device includes an inverter circuit and a noise reducer. The noise reducer includes a common-mode choke coil and a smoothing capacitor. The common-mode choke coil includes a loop-shaped core, a first winding wound around the core, a second winding wound around the core, the second winding being spaced apart from and opposed to the first winding, and a loop-shaped conductor that covers the core while extending over the first winding and the second winding. The core includes an exposed portion that is not covered with the conductor. Parts of the conductor that are opposed to each other between the first winding and the second winding are spaced apart from each other.

Abstract: Provided are an internal combustion engine control device and control method in which a multi-injection process comprises performing an intake synchronized injection and an intake asynchronous injection to inject a required injection amount of fuel by operating a port injection valve for injecting fuel into an intake passageway. A variable process includes variably setting an injection timing for the intake synchronized injection on the basis of at least two of three parameters. The injection timing for the intake synchronized injection is expressed by the rotation angle of a crank shaft of an internal combustion engine. The three parameters include a rotational speed of the crank shaft of the internal combustion engine, a valve-opening start timing of an intake valve, and a temperature of an intake system of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An exhaust gas energy recovery device includes a power generation device driven by a turbine configured to rotate by an exhaust gas, a switching element connected to the power generation device, a first terminal connected to the power generation device via the switching element and for being connected to a first power storage device, and a second terminal connected to the power generation device and for being connected to a second power storage device, in which a terminal voltage of the first power storage device is lower than a terminal voltage of the second power storage device, and the switching element switches a destination to be charged by the power generation device to either the first power storage device or the second power storage device on the basis of magnitude of a direct current voltage output from the power generation device.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping method for forming a shaped object using a powder made up of first particles, on a vertically movable shaping stage within a shaping container, the method includes a step of forming a powder layer made up of the first particles, on the shaping stage on which second particles that have a larger particle size than a particle size of each of the first particles are disposed along a gap between the shaping container and the shaping stage. R1 is an average particle size of the first particles, R2 is an average particle size of the second particles and d is a distance of the gap between the shaping container and the shaping stage. Expression (1) is satisfied: R1?d<R2?? (1).

Abstract: Provided is an applicator device for an endoscope, including an applicator attachable to and removable from an insertion part of an endoscope to be inserted into a body cavity, and the applicator comprises a light emitting element that irradiates an affected area of a biological tissue in the body cavity with excitation light that excites a photosensitive substance administered to the affected area so that the photosensitive substance acts on the affected area.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a stator manufacturing method and a device therefor. All of segments are twisted in order to obtain a stator, the linear sections of the segments being inserted into slots in a stator core. The segments on the inner peripheral side are subsequently twisted after the segments on the outer peripheral side are untwisted. In order to achieve this, e.g., a fourth spindle that is positioned on the outermost peripheral side and is one of the first through fourth spindles for twisting the segments is disconnected from a fourth motor and brought to a non-rotatable state. The following is then performed in sequence: the third spindle is disconnected from a third motor and twisted, and the second spindle is disconnected from the second motor and twisted.

Abstract: A battery terminal includes a penetration plate arranged to penetrate from one end portions of annular portions to the other end portions interposing slits, a fastening bolt supported to be rotatable around an axial direction by a threaded hole provided on the other end portion of the penetration plate, and a spacer arranged in contact with the annular portions from the other end portion side of the penetration plate and converting a tightening force in the axial direction arising along with the rotation of the fastening bolt around the axial direction into a pressing force that presses the annular portions from a long-side direction. The penetration plate is arranged to penetrate a clearance of the pair of annular portions. The pair of annular portions includes projecting portions as a clearance reduction portion that reduces the clearance in at least a part of the penetration area of the penetration plate.

Abstract: An impeller includes: a main body portion which is increased in diameter from one side to another side in a rotation axis direction; a thinned portion, which is formed in a back surface of the main body portion so as to be oriented toward the another side in the rotation axis direction, and is recessed toward the one side in the rotation axis direction; a plurality of full blades which are formed on an outer circumferential surface of the main body portion so as to be oriented toward the one side in the rotation axis direction; and a plurality of splitter blades, which are formed on the outer circumferential surface, and have end portions being located on the one side in the rotation axis direction and being positioned on the another side in the rotation axis direction with respect to the full blades.

Abstract: A battery terminal includes a main body in which a battery post is inserted and a fastener having a pair of fastening abutting portions. The main body has a notch portion provided in at least an end in a fastening direction, accommodating and positioning one of the pair of fastening abutting portions. An abutting-portion-side opposite surface on the fastening abutting portion side and a notch-portion-side opposite surface on the notch portion side have respective abutting surfaces. A relief surface is provided on at least one of the abutting-portion-side opposite surface and the notch-portion-side opposite surface such that a relief space is formed with a clearance from the other one of the opposite surfaces.

Abstract: An insertion apparatus includes a conductor guide member that guides a prescribed region of an electric conductor to a slot of a stator core, and a support body that supports the conductor guide member. In this configuration, the conductor guide member can float in an axial direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A building integrity assessment system includes: an earthquake detector including: a building bottom sensor at a bottom of a building and that detects acceleration and an earthquake early-warning receiver that receives an earthquake early warning; a cloud computer; and sensors disposed at a plurality of positions in the building and that measures an influence of an earthquake on the building at each of the positions and wirelessly transmits measurement results to the cloud computer. The cloud computer estimates and evaluates the integrity of the building based on the measurement results. In response to the building bottom sensor detecting preliminary tremors or the earthquake early-warning receiver receiving the earthquake early warning, the plurality of sensors measures the influence of the earthquake on the building from a time before a major motion arrives at the building to a time after the arrival.

Abstract: Examples of a substrate processing method include subjecting a substrate placed on a susceptor to plasma processing, applying power to an RF electrode facing the susceptor for only a predetermined static electricity removal time to generate plasma, thereby reducing an amount of charge of the substrate, measuring a self-bias voltage of the RF electrode while susceptor pins are made to protrude from a top surface of the susceptor and lift up the substrate, and by a controller, shortening the static electricity removal time when the self-bias voltage has a positive value, and lengthening the static electricity removal time when the self-bias voltage has a negative value.

Abstract: A battery system includes a battery stack formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells, a bus bar coupling electrode terminals of the battery cells, a lead wire electrically coupled to the bus bar, and a voltage detection circuit configured to detect a voltage of each of the battery cells via the lead wire. The bus bar includes a bus bar main body including terminal coupling parts respectively coupled with the electrode terminals, and a lead wire fixing part fixed with the lead wire. The bus bar further includes, on a first surface, a coupling region electrically coupled with the lead wire, and, away from a coupling region, on the lead wire fixing part, a lock connection part locking and connecting the lead wire. The lock connection part includes a through part passing through the lead wire fixing part.

Abstract: An electric turbocharger includes an electric motor which rotationally drives a rotating blade, a motor housing which accommodates the electric motor therein, a controller which is disposed outside the motor housing and controls the driving of the electric motor, and a power supply mechanism which supplies a current from the controller to the electric motor through a through-hole communicating the inside and the outside of the motor housing, in which the power supply mechanism includes a rod which is hermetically sealed while being inserted through the through-hole, a connector which is connected to at least one end of the rod, and a busbar which is connected to the connector, and in which the connector absorbs a relative positional displacement of the rod with respect to the connector.

Abstract: A battery terminal includes a penetration plate arranged to penetrate from one end portions of annular portions to the other end portions interposing slits, a fastening bolt supported to be rotatable around an axial direction by a threaded hole provided on the other end portion of the penetration plate, and a spacer arranged in contact with the annular portions from the other end portion side of the penetration plate and converting a tightening force in the axial direction arising along with the rotation of the fastening bolt around the axial direction into a pressing force that presses the annular portions from a long-side direction. The penetration plate is arranged to penetrate a clearance of the pair of annular portions. The pair of annular portions includes projecting portions as a clearance reduction portion that reduces the clearance in at least a part of the penetration area of the penetration plate.

Abstract: A manufacturing device that is used in a manufacturing method for a rotary electric machine is equipped with an insertion roller having an outer circumferential surface configured to contact a coil lead line in such a manner that the coil lead line is inserted into accommodating grooves of an insulator, a roller support section that rotatably supports the insertion roller, and a bending unit that performs a bending process to bend the coil lead line by coming into contact with the coil lead line so as to form a terminal part.

Abstract: An item dispensing device includes a plurality of stacked item ejection units, a cylindrical shared delivery pipe penetrating throughout the item ejection units, and an item dispensing unit connected to a lower end of the shared delivery pipe and provided with an item dispensing slot. A plurality of item ejection ports are opened in side wall portions of the shared delivery pipe. The item ejection unit includes a circular rotor and an energizing mechanism. In the rotor, item holders opened radially inward are disposed intermittently along the circumferential direction. The energizing mechanism energizes the item held in any one of the plurality of item holders radially inward and pushes out the item through an opening of the item holder substantially horizontally to the item ejection port when the opening is aligned with the item ejection port with rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: A stator manufacturing apparatus is equipped with spindles as twisting and bending jigs, an inner guide having a first supply flow path and a suction flow path formed in the interior thereof, and an outer guide having a second supply flow path formed in the interior thereof. Further, the spindles have receiving members in which insertion recesses are formed. Through holes are formed in the receiving members, and the receiving members are formed with lateral holes therein which allow the interiors of the insertion recesses to communicate with each other.