Abstract: A chopper section of a power supply device includes a plurality of step-down chopper circuits, and multiphase control of the step-down chopper circuits is performed using gate signals having phases displaced from each other. This shortens the period with which output signals of the step-down chopper circuits are changed. Shortening the period reduces the amount of jitter resulting from a gap between the occurrence of a command signal and a sampling point that is a point in time at which a gate signal is generated. The number of phases of the gate signals equals the number of phases of the step-down chopper circuits. The control of the gate signal generator is asynchronous to feedback control by the controller. Points in time (sampling points) at which gate signals are generated are points in time of generation (sampling points) after a point in time at which the controller calculates a manipulated value.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is directed to a method for producing a glass sheet with a coating, produced by applying a functional liquid for providing a function to the glass sheet, to at least one face of the glass sheet, including a first step of supplying the functional liquid to an ejection portion having a nozzle that ejects the functional liquid toward the glass sheet, and a second step of applying the functional liquid to the glass sheet while moving the glass sheet relative to the ejection portion in a fixed state such that the functional liquid ejected from the nozzle is applied to a predetermined region on the at least one face of the glass sheet, wherein a tube member that transports the functional liquid is connected to the ejection portion, and, in the first step, the functional liquid is supplied by the tube member to the ejection portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for forming an adhesive layer, an adhesive layer, a manufacturing method for the adhesive layer, a composite material, a sheet, a heat dissipation member, an electronic device, a battery, a capacitor, an automobile component and a machine mechanism component, and the composition for forming the adhesive layer contains a polyvinyl acetal resin and a compound having an oxazoline group.

Abstract: A nondestructive inspection apparatus includes an X-ray source, an imaging panel that detects an X-ray, and a shielding plate that shields the X-ray, and the imaging panel and the shielding plate have flexibility that allows to be curved.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is directed to a method for producing a glass sheet with a coating, produced by applying a functional liquid for providing a function to the glass sheet, to at least one face of the glass sheet, including a first step of supplying the functional liquid to an ejection portion having a nozzle that ejects the functional liquid toward the glass sheet, and a second step of applying the functional liquid to the glass sheet while moving the glass sheet relative to the ejection portion in a fixed state such that the functional liquid ejected from the nozzle is applied to a predetermined region on the at least one face of the glass sheet, wherein a tube member that transports the functional liquid is connected to the ejection portion, and, in the first step, the functional liquid is supplied by the tube member to the ejection portion.

Abstract: A bicycle battery holder is basically provided with a holder main body, an engagement unit and an operating unit. The holder main body is configured to hold a plurality of bicycle battery units. The engagement unit is configured to lock the bicycle battery units by engaging the bicycle battery units while the bicycle battery units are disposed in the holder main body. The operating unit is configured to operate the engagement unit.

Abstract: A chopper section of a power supply device includes a plurality of step-down chopper circuits, and multiphase control of the step-down chopper circuits is performed using gate signals having phases displaced from each other. This shortens the period with which output signals of the step-down chopper circuits are changed. Shortening the period reduces the amount of jitter resulting from a gap between the occurrence of a command signal and a sampling point that is a point in time at which a gate signal is generated. The number of phases of the gate signals equals the number of phases of the step-down chopper circuits. The control of the gate signal generator is asynchronous to feedback control by the controller. Points in time (sampling points) at which gate signals are generated are points in time of generation (sampling points) after a point in time at which the controller calculates a manipulated value.

Abstract: A sound-absorbing thermal-insulating material (1) includes flame resistant organic fibers (2) and inorganic fibers (4) bonded to the flame resistant organic fibers (2). The flame resistant organic fibers (2) shrink and the inorganic fibers (4) are distorted, so that the flame resistant organic fibers (2) and the inorganic fibers (4) are entangled with one another and distend.

Abstract: A haptic device includes a flexible covering, an actuator provided in the covering and configured to generate vibration, and transmission particles filling the covering.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for producing 2-halogenated benzoic acids, the method imparting high regioselectivity (high selectivity) and having a shorter reaction time than does the conventional reaction. This method for producing 2-halogenated benzoic acids, in order to achieve the above purpose, is characterized in that benzoic acids and a halogenating agent are reacted in the presence of an alkaline compound, making it possible to highly selectively obtain 2-halogenated benzoic acids.

Abstract: A proxy device management apparatus includes: an attribute information storage that stores attribute information obtained from a management target device and information indicating a reception time of the attribute information; and a processor that performs a first operation or a second operation according to a difference between the reception time of the attribute information and a reception time of an obtaining request of the attribute information when the proxy device management apparatus receives the obtaining request from a device management apparatus. The first operation includes transmitting the attribute information stored in the attribute information storage to the device management apparatus. The second operation includes obtaining the attribute information corresponding to the obtaining request from the management target device and transmitting the obtained attribute information to the device management apparatus.

Abstract: A bicycle derailleur is basically provided with a base member, a movable member and an electric actuator. The base member is configured to rotate together with a bicycle sprocket apparatus about a rotational axis of the bicycle sprocket apparatus. The movable member is movable relative to the base member to displace a bicycle chain. The electric actuator is configured to electrically actuate the movable member.

Abstract: An x-ray inspection device includes an x-ray irradiation unit that irradiates an object for inspection with an x-ray; a sensor that detects an electric signal corresponding to a back-scattered x-ray reflected off the object for inspection; a measurement unit that measures the object for inspection with reference to the electric signal output by the sensor; and a heavy metal plate having a pinhole that allows the back-scattered x-ray to pass therethrough, the pinhole forming an image of the back-scattered x-ray on the sensor.

Abstract: A heat sink, including a base section in contact with a heating unit, and a heat-dissipating section for dissipating heat received from the heating unit by the base section, in which the base section includes at least one metal layer, and the heat-dissipating section includes a laminate prepared by laminating a metal layer and a graphite layer through an adhesive layer formed by using a composition containing a polyvinyl acetal resin, or a heat sink for dissipating heat from a heating unit, in which the heat sink includes a laminate prepared by laminating a metal layer and a graphite layer through an adhesive layer formed by using a composition containing a polyvinyl acetal resin, and is arranged so as to cover the heating unit.

Abstract: An operation training apparatus is used in training for operations on living tissue that expands and contracts. The apparatus includes a model body, which mimics the living tissue, a driving device, which moves the model body in a manner mimicking the expansion-contraction, and a controller, which controls a manner in which the driving device is driven. The driving device includes an electroactive polymer actuator.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a composition for low thermal expansion members, which is capable of forming a low thermal expansion member that has a thermal expansion coefficient close to those of the members within a semiconductor element, while having high heat resistance and high heat conductivity; and a low thermal expansion member. A composition for low thermal expansion members according to the present invention is characterized by containing: a heat conductive first inorganic filler that is bonded to one end of a first coupling agent; and a heat conductive second inorganic filler that is bonded to one end of a second coupling agent. This composition for low thermal expansion members is also characterized in that the first inorganic filler and the second inorganic filler are bonded to each other via the first coupling agent and the second coupling agent by means of a curing treatment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition capable of forming a heat dissipating member having high thermal conductivity and a heat dissipating member. The composition for a heat dissipating member of the present invention is a composition for a heat dissipating member that includes a first inorganic filler having thermal conductivity that is bonded to one end of a coupling agent; a second inorganic filler having thermal conductivity that is bonded to one end of a coupling agent, in which a bifunctional or higher polymerizable compound is additionally bonded to the other end of the bonded coupling agent; wherein the other end of the coupling agent bonded to the first inorganic filler is to be bonded to the polymerizable compound on the second inorganic filler during curing.

Abstract: The inventions are: a composition capable of forming a heat-dissipating member that has high thermal conductivity and in which the thermal expansion coefficient can be controlled; and a heat-dissipating member. This composition for a heat-dissipating member comprises a thermally conductive first inorganic filler bonded to one end of a first coupling agent, and a thermally conductive second inorganic filler bonded to one end of a second coupling agent, the composition being characterized in that: at least one of the first coupling agent and the second coupling agent is a liquid crystal silane coupling agent; the other end of the first coupling agent and the other end of the second coupling agent each have a functional group bondable with one another; and the other end of the first coupling agent bonds with the other end of the second coupling agent by a curing treatment.

Abstract: This invention is a composition capable of forming a heat-dissipating member that has high heat resistance and high thermal conductivity. This composition for a heat-dissipating member comprises a thermally conductive first inorganic filler bonded to one end of a first coupling agent, and a thermally conductive second inorganic filler bonded to one end of a second coupling agent, the composition being characterized in that: the other end of the first coupling agent and the other end of the second coupling agent are each bonded to a bifunctional or higher silsesquioxane by a curing treatment, as illustrated in FIG. 2; or at least one of the first coupling agent and the second coupling agent includes, in the structure thereof, a silsesquioxane, and the other end of the first coupling agent and the other end of the second coupling agent are bonded together as illustrated in FIG. 3.

Abstract: A bicycle derailleur is basically provided with a base member, a movable member and an electric actuator. The base member is configured to rotate together with a bicycle sprocket apparatus about a rotational axis of the bicycle sprocket apparatus. The movable member is movable relative to the base member to displace a bicycle chain. The electric actuator is configured to electrically actuate the movable member.