Abstract: A fluid sterilization apparatus according to an embodiment includes a tubular cover; a tubular portion provided inside the cover; a supply head provided at one end of the tubular portion; a discharge head provided at the other end of the tubular portion; at least one light-emitting element provided in at least one of the supply head and the discharge head and allowed to irradiate an inside of the tubular portion with ultraviolet rays; and a temperature control unit capable of controlling a temperature of a space between the cover and the tubular portion.

Abstract: A fluid sterilization device according to an embodiment includes: a tube portion; a supply head in one end portion of the tube portion; a discharge head provided in the other end portion thereof and having a first hole penetrating a space between end faces on the tube portion side and the opposite side; a holder having a flange and a protruding portion projecting from one surface of the flange and provided in the first hole; a substrate on an end face of the protruding portion on a side opposite to the flange side; a light-emitting element provided on a surface of the substrate on a side opposite to the protruding portion side and emitting ultraviolet rays; a window provided in the first hole and facing the light-emitting element; and a desiccant provided outside the discharge head and in a space communicating with the first hole or in the first hole.

Abstract: An intake system of an internal combustion engine, in which a phase angle between throttle valves is provided in order to perform combustion appropriate for each cylinder so as to stabilize a number of revolutions and thereby suppress generation of unburned gas, is provided. The intake system is provided to intake passages of an internal combustion engine with parallel cylinders. The intake system includes a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit power from a power source to throttle shafts so as to synchronize and simultaneously turn a plurality of throttle valves and thereby open and close the intake passages. At least one of the throttle valves is an angled throttle valve having a phase angle at an open position relative to the other throttle valve.

Abstract: A fluid sterilization apparatus according to an embodiment includes a tubular portion; a supply head provided at one end of the tubular portion; a discharge head provided at the other end of the tubular portion; a holder provided on the discharge head; a window provided on the discharge head and one surface of which is exposed to a flow path provided in the discharge head; a board provided on a surface of the holder on a side of the window; a light-emitting element provided on the board and allowed to irradiate the window with ultraviolet rays; and a heat insulating portion which is provided between the discharge head and the holder and has a lower thermal conductivity than a thermal conductivity of the holder.

Abstract: A fluid sterilization device according to an embodiment includes a tubular portion; a supply head provided in one end portion of the tubular portion; a discharge head provided in the other end portion of the tubular portion, and including a hole penetrating through the discharge head between an end face on a tubular portion side and an end face on a side opposite the tubular portion side; a substrate provided inside the hole of the discharge head; a light-emitting element provided on a surface on the tubular portion side of the substrate, and configured to emit an ultraviolet ray; and a window provided in the discharge head, and facing the light-emitting element. A surface roughness Ra of an inner surface of the tubular portion is 50 nanometers (nm) or less.

Abstract: A fluid sterilization device according to an embodiment includes: a tube portion; a supply head in one end portion of the tube portion; a discharge head provided in the other end portion thereof and having a first hole penetrating a space between end faces on the tube portion side and the opposite side; a holder having a flange and a protruding portion projecting from one surface of the flange and provided in the first hole; a substrate on an end face of the protruding portion on a side opposite to the flange side; a light-emitting element provided on a surface of the substrate on a side opposite to the protruding portion side and emitting ultraviolet rays; a window provided in the first hole and facing the light-emitting element; and a desiccant provided outside the discharge head and in a space communicating with the first hole or in the first hole.

Abstract: A fluid sterilization apparatus according to an embodiment includes a tubular cover; a tubular portion provided inside the cover; a supply head provided at one end of the tubular portion; a discharge head provided at the other end of the tubular portion; at least one light-emitting element provided in at least one of the supply head and the discharge head and allowed to irradiate an inside of the tubular portion with ultraviolet rays; and a temperature control unit capable of controlling a temperature of a space between the cover and the tubular portion.

Abstract: A fluid sterilization apparatus according to an embodiment includes a tubular portion; a supply head provided at one end of the tubular portion; a discharge head provided at the other end of the tubular portion; a holder provided on the discharge head; a window provided on the discharge head and one surface of which is exposed to a flow path provided in the discharge head; a board provided on a surface of the holder on a side of the window; a light-emitting element provided on the board and allowed to irradiate the window with ultraviolet rays; and a heat insulating portion which is provided between the discharge head and the holder and has a lower thermal conductivity than a thermal conductivity of the holder.

Abstract: A fluid sterilizer of an embodiment includes a processing chamber, a light source unit, and a supply flow path. The processing chamber processes a fluid. The light source unit has a light source, a cooling block, and a medium flow path. The light source irradiates the processing chamber with ultraviolet rays. The cooling block cools the light source. The medium flow path is provided inside the cooling block, and a cooling medium flows therein. The supply flow path connects the medium flow path and the processing chamber to each other, and supplies the cooling medium flowing through the medium flow path to the processing chamber as the fluid.

Abstract: In a periodic heating radiation temperature measuring technique thermophysical property measuring device that is equipped a heating laser beam irradiator to irradiate laser beams periodically to a sample at a frequency f and an infrared light condenser to condense infrared light radiated from a certain point of the sample, wherein the heating laser beam irradiator and the infrared light condenser being arranged to face each other across the sample, and measures a thermal diffusivity based on a periodic temperature change of the sample, and an infrared fiber that guides infrared light condensed by the infrared light condenser up to a radiation thermometer; and a controller that measures a phase difference ? between a period of a temperature change of the radiation thermometer and a period of the heating laser beams, and calculates a thermal diffusivity based on the phase difference ? and the frequency f.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a freeze-drying apparatus and a freeze-drying method, which are capable of increasing a drying efficiency of frozen particles. [Solving Means] The freeze-drying apparatus 100 includes a freezing chamber 10 into which a raw material fluid F is injected. During the injection of the raw material fluid F, after the injection of the raw material fluid F, or for a time period covering the start to the termination of the injection of the raw material fluid F, a shelf 16 is vibrated in a horizontal direction due to an actuation of vibration generators 31. With this, the frozen particles deposited on the shelf 16 are evenly diffused on the shelf 16 in such a manner that a deposition thickness thereof becomes smaller or a single layer thereof is formed. With this, a freezing efficiency and the drying efficiency of individual particles are promoted.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler for improving the timbre of an exhaust sound in a low engine speed region and for increasing an engine output in a high engine speed region. In an exhaust device for an internal combustion engine for discharging an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine through a multistage expansion type muffler having a plurality of expansion chambers for silencing the sound of the exhaust gas during the passage thereof, the multistage expansion type muffler includes a first tail pipe for communicating between a most downstream one of the expansion chambers and the outside of the muffler and a second tail pipe for communicating between an upstream one of the expansion chambers on the upstream side of the most downstream expansion chamber and the outside of the muffler.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler for improving the timbre of an exhaust sound in a low engine speed region and for increasing an engine output in a high engine speed region. In an exhaust device for an internal combustion engine for discharging an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine through a multistage expansion type muffler having a plurality of expansion chambers for silencing the sound of the exhaust gas during the passage thereof, the multistage expansion type muffler includes a first tail pipe for communicating between a most downstream one of the expansion chambers and the outside of the muffler and a second tail pipe for communicating between an upstream one of the expansion chambers on the upstream side of the most downstream expansion chamber and the outside of the muffler.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a freeze-drying apparatus and a freeze-drying method, which are capable of increasing a drying efficiency of frozen particles. [Solving Means] The freeze-drying apparatus 100 includes a freezing chamber 10 into which a raw material fluid F is injected. During the injection of the raw material fluid F, after the injection of the raw material fluid F, or for a time period covering the start to the termination of the injection of the raw material fluid F, a shelf 16 is vibrated in a horizontal direction due to an actuation of vibration generators 31. With this, the frozen particles deposited on the shelf 16 are evenly diffused on the shelf 16 in such a manner that a deposition thickness thereof becomes smaller or a single layer thereof is formed. With this, a freezing efficiency and the drying efficiency of individual particles are promoted.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a freeze-drying apparatus capable of achieving an increase of a processing capacity without causing a variation of a particle diameter. [Solving Means] A freeze-drying apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a freezing chamber 10 forming a vacuum chamber; and an injector 25. The injector 25 includes a tube member 29 provided to the vacuum chamber, and a nozzle 9 including a plurality of injection holes 92 open to an inside of the tube member 29. The injector 25 injects a raw material fluid F, which is fed to the tube member 29, from the nozzle 9 into the vacuum chamber. The respective injection holes 92 are each formed so as to be open to the inside of the tube member 29, and hence the raw material fluid F is injected through the respective injection holes 92 at the same injection pressure. With this, it is possible to achieve the increase of the processing capacity without causing the variation of the particle diameter.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a freeze-drying apparatus and a freeze-drying method, which are capable of increasing a collection rate of a raw material without a need for providing a member such as a baffle plate or the like. [Solving Means] The freeze-drying apparatus 100 includes: a container 4 to store a raw material fluid F; a freezing chamber 10 being a vacuum chamber; a vacuum pump 1 to exhaust the freezing chamber 10; and an injection mechanism 25 to inject the raw material fluid F stored in the container 4 into the freezing chamber 10. The cold trap 20 is arranged within the freezing chamber 10, and hence a phenomenon that the raw material is discharged to the outside of the vacuum chamber together with a vapor as in the past can be prevented. With this, the collection rate of the raw material can be increased. Further, it becomes unnecessary to provide the baffle plate or the like for preventing the phenomenon in vicinity of an exhaust port of the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: An optical axis O? of a lens section of an optical member is inclined downward relative to a horizontal direction (an optical axis O of each LED) from a light emitting section of each LED. Therefore, an area at and below a horizontal position of a lighting device is illuminated by the lens section while each LED is arranged at an optically ideal position relative to the lens section. Also, reflection surfaces of upper and lower reflector sections and of the optical member are respectively set based on parabolas P1 and P2 different from each other with focal points F1 and F2 positioned at each LED. Therefore, the area at and below the horizontal position of the lighting device is illuminated respectively by the reflector sections while each LED is arranged at an optically ideal position relative to the reflector sections.

Abstract: Large-scale SNP analyses conducted on subjects in a Parkinson's disease patient group and a normal control group led to the successful identification of a gene (GRK5) associated with Parkinson's disease. In addition, it was newly discovered that phosphorylation of ?-synuclein is promoted by enhanced expression of the GRK5 gene, and as a result, the formation of soluble ?-synuclein oligomers is promoted, leading to Parkinson's disease. The present invention enables the assessment of Parkinson's disease as well as the screening of therapeutic agents for Parkinson's disease using as an index the expression of GRK5 gene.

Abstract: The present invention provides a running control device for an industrial vehicle that has superior driving operability and that allows easy starting and stopping on road surfaces that have sloped or stepped surface. The running control device for an industrial vehicle includes an engine, a sensor that detects an operation amount of an accelerator member, a transmission that has a forward clutch and reverse clutch, a brake that applies braking to the vehicle, and a controller. The controller simultaneously controls the engine revolutions, the engaging force of the forward clutch and reverse clutch and the braking force of the brake in accordance with the operation amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides a running control device for an industrial vehicle which generates no speed change shock when the traveling direction is switched to the opposite direction by the forward-reverse selection member during the running of the vehicle.