Abstract: A heat-exchanger fixing plate fixes a side portion of a heat exchanger to a housing panel of an air-conditioning apparatus, the heat exchanger including a heat radiation fin and a heat transfer tube. The heat-exchanger fixing plate includes a heat-exchanger support portion facing the side portion of the heat exchanger, and having an insertion hole through which a hairpin portion of the heat transfer tube of the heat exchanger is inserted; and a housing-panel fixing portion separate from and fitted to the heat-exchanger support portion fastened with a screw to the housing panel such that the heat exchanger is fixed to the housing panel. The housing-panel fixing portion is made of material having a higher mechanical strength than that of the heat-exchanger support portion, and the heat-exchanger support portion is made of the material having a lower friction coefficient than that of the housing-panel fixing portion.

Abstract: A valve device includes: a valve box in which an inlet flow passage into which steam flows and an outlet flow passage through which the steam flows are formed, and in which a valve chamber that connects the inlet flow passage and the outlet flow passage is formed; and a plurality of valve bodies configured to regulate a flow rate of the steam flowing through the outlet flow passage by relative movement to the outlet flow passage. The valve box includes a valve box main body in which the inlet flow passage, the outlet flow passage, and an opening portion are formed, a lid portion that is attachable to and detachable from the valve box main body and closes the opening portion, and a cleaning nozzle that is disposed to penetrate through the lid portion and is configured to supply a cleaning liquid into the valve chamber from the outside.

Abstract: For example, a macro model of a semiconductor integrated circuit device is used in a circuit design simulator, and comprises a plurality of functional blocks and a characteristic setting block. The functional blocks are each configured to cause the circuit design simulator to show approximate representation or equivalent representation of the characteristic of the semiconductor integrated circuit device. The characteristic setting block sets at least one of a plurality of internal parameters provided in the functional blocks by using array data derived from evaluation measurement data obtained by actual measurement of the semiconductor integrated circuit device.

Abstract: A brake pedal device includes: a pedal bracket fixed to a dash panel; an operation pedal mechanism having a step portion rotatable with respect to the pedal bracket and in which the step portion is stepped forward of a vehicle; a rotating member having a bent portion, a front end portion, and an upper end portion, and rotatably supported with respect to the operation pedal mechanism by a rotating shaft portion at the bent portion; a connecting pin and a clevis that rotatably hold a tip portion of an operating rod projecting rearward of the vehicle from the dash panel with respect to the rotating member, at the front end portion of the rotating member; and a caulking pin that fixes the rotating member and the operation pedal mechanism, at the bent portion of the rotating member.

Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus includes: a rotor having a first peripheral surface and a second peripheral surface with a radius smaller than that of the first peripheral surface and configured to convey a sheet; and a guide member configured to be movable between a first position where it guides a sheet being conveyed by the rotor and a second position retracting from the first position. The guide member is disposed so as to move from the second position to the first position while passing within the rotation locus of the first peripheral surface of the rotor.

Abstract: A valve device includes: a valve box in which an inlet flow passage into which steam flows and an outlet flow passage through which the steam flows are formed, and in which a valve chamber that connects the inlet flow passage and the outlet flow passage is formed; and a plurality of valve bodies configured to regulate a flow rate of the steam flowing through the outlet flow passage by relative movement to the outlet flow passage. The valve box includes a valve box main body in which the inlet flow passage, the outlet flow passage, and an opening portion are formed, a lid portion that is attachable to and detachable from the valve box main body and closes the opening portion, and a cleaning nozzle that is disposed to penetrate through the lid portion and is configured to supply a cleaning liquid into the valve chamber from the outside.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel transglutaminase that is useful for food or medical applications. The present invention provides: a transglutaminase having an amino acid sequence that has an identity of 90% or more with respect to an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2; and an enzyme preparation containing said transglutaminase as an active ingredient. The enzyme preparation is particularly useful for food production and medical applications.

Abstract: Provided is an image capturing apparatus with which images of a subject can be captured in diverse lighting environments that can be varied without moving the fixed positions of lighting fixtures. An image capturing apparatus 100 is provided with: a turntable 11 for placing a subject to be captured; cameras 6a and 6b for capturing images of the subject placed on a placement stand 1; a plurality of side walls 7a-7h provided to surround the turntable 11; and a plurality of lateral lighting units installed inside the plurality of side walls 7a-7h. In the image capturing apparatus 100, the lighting condition of the turntable 11 can be varied by individually changing the illumination states of the plurality of lateral lighting units.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to further improve upon the strength and durability of a wire rope. A wire rope has a core rope made of steel; a covering layer, which is made of a composite resin, covering the outer peripheral surface of the core rope; and multiple side strands, which are made of steel, wound on the outer peripheral surface of the core rope covered with the covering layer. The composite resin constituting the covering layer is obtained by blending cellulose nanofibers with polypropylene serving as a matrix.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for purifying carbon dioxide gas characterized in that carbon dioxide gas containing at least one of 3-methylmercaptopropionaldehyde and acrolein is contacted with activated carbon to remove at least one of the 3-methylmercaptopropionaldehyde and acrolein. The present invention provides also a method for producing methionine comprising the purification step of the recovered carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A sheet folding apparatus includes: a rotor having a first peripheral surface and a second peripheral surface with a radius smaller than that of the first peripheral surface and configured to convey a sheet; and a guide member configured to be movable between a first position where it guides a sheet being conveyed by the rotor and a second position retracting from the first position. The guide member is disposed so as to move from the second position to the first position while passing within the rotation locus of the first peripheral surface of the rotor.

Abstract: To enable highly accurate fold processing by properly moving a sheet that has been subjected to fold processing. In a sheet processing apparatus that that performs fold processing in such a manner as to apply first fold processing to a sheet and then apply second fold processing at a position different from a fold line formed in the first fold processing so as to make one end of the sheet folded in the first fold processing lie inside the folded sheet, the first fold processing is applied to a sheet conveyed to an intermediate tray by a fold roller pair and, when a regulating stopper is moved to move the folded sheet that has been subjected to the first fold processing to a predetermined position of the intermediate tray, the folded sheet is gripped by a grip unit.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a rotating body pair capable of transporting a sheet in a first direction for nipping the sheet transported to a transport path thereby drawing the sheet for folding processing, and in a second direction for switching back the sheet to return to the transport path, a push member that pushes the sheet transported to the transport path to a nip portion of the rotating body pair, and a press member pressing one end portion of the sheet folded by the rotating body pair to guide, and including a press portion that presses the one end portion of the sheet in a direction of the transport path where the other end portion of the sheet exists, and a guide portion that guides the sheet pressed by the press portion to the guide face of the transport path where the other end portion of the sheet exists.

Abstract: A gauze detection system is provided that is capable of effectively detecting a gauze pad in the patient's body during surgery without applying special processing to the gauze pad. A gauze detection system 100, includes: an image input section 1 to input a taken image of an operative field; a determination section 2 to determine whether a determination target region contains a feature of a gauze image by image processing, the region having a predetermined size in an input image; and a determination result output section 3 to report detection of a gauze pad in the input image in a case of the determination target region being determined by the determination section 2 to contain the feature of the gauze image.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular operation pedal device having a small number of parts required for preventing backward movement of a step portion of an operation pedal mechanism at the time of a vehicle collision.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular operation pedal device having a fail-safe function to prevent backward movement of a step portion of an operation pedal mechanism at the time of a vehicle collision. A brake pedal device (1) includes a protrusion (90) which performs rotation restriction for preventing a rotating member (50) from rotating about a rotating shaft portion (14), and on which a restricting load (F2) acts by the rotation restriction. During the rotation restriction by the protrusion (90), a second load acts as the restricting load (F2) when a step portion (24) of an operation pedal mechanism (20) is fully stepped forward of a vehicle, and when the restricting load (F2) is greater than the second load, the rotation restriction is released due to deformation of the protrusion (90) by shearing or bending.

Abstract: In order to enable a sheet to be properly guided to a nip portion in performing folding processing, a sheet processing apparatus for performing folding processing on a sheet is provided with a rotating body pair which nips the sheet by a nip portion to rotate, and thereby draws the sheet to perform folding processing, a folding blade that pushes the sheet to the nip portion of the rotating body pair, and a blade guide member including a guide portion for pushing the sheet to the nip portion when the folding blade pushes the sheet to the nip portion, where the folding blade and blade guide member are relatively shifted so that a distance from a push front edge portion to the guide portion when the folding blade pushes the sheet to the nip portion is longer than a distance from the front edge portion to the guide portion.

Abstract: To enable highly accurate fold processing by properly moving a sheet that has been subjected to fold processing. In a sheet processing apparatus that that performs fold processing in such a manner as to apply first fold processing to a sheet and then apply second fold processing at a position different from a fold line formed in the first fold processing so as to make one end of the sheet folded in the first fold processing lie inside the folded sheet, the first fold processing is applied to a sheet conveyed to an intermediate tray by a fold roller pair and, when a regulating stopper is moved to move the folded sheet that has been subjected to the first fold processing to a predetermined position of the intermediate tray, the folded sheet is gripped by a grip unit.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular operation pedal device having a fail-safe function to prevent backward movement of a step portion of an operation pedal mechanism at the time of a vehicle collision. A brake pedal device (1) includes a protrusion (90) which performs rotation restriction for preventing a rotating member (50) from rotating about a rotating shaft portion (14), and on which a restricting load (F2) acts by the rotation restriction. During the rotation restriction by the protrusion (90), a second load acts as the restricting load (F2) when a step portion (24) of an operation pedal mechanism (20) is fully stepped forward of a vehicle, and when the restricting load (F2) is greater than the second load, the rotation restriction is released due to deformation of the protrusion (90) by shearing or bending.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus performs folding processing so that one end of a sheet exists inside the folded sheet. The sheet processing apparatus includes a transport path to guide a transported sheet, a rotating body pair capable of transporting the sheet in a first direction to perform folding processing, and in a second direction for switching back the sheet subjected to the folding processing, a folding blade that pushes the sheet to a nip portion of the rotating body pair, a press member that presses the sheet folded by the rotating body pair in the second direction, and a shift section that shifts the press member for pressing the sheet. In switching back the sheet, a control section controls transport of the sheet so that the one end of the sheet is halted within a region between the press member and a guide face of the transport path.