Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control apparatus. The vehicle control apparatus includes: an automatic return type select switch that receives an operation for selecting an operating condition of an automatic transmission and outputs a selection signal corresponding to the received selection operation; a switch controller that switches the operating condition of the automatic transmission in accordance with the selection signal output by the select switch; an emergency determining unit that determines whether or not the select switch has been operated consecutively at least a predetermined number of times within a predetermined period while the vehicle travels, and outputs an emergency operation signal when determining that the select switch has been operated consecutively; and a brake control unit and an electric parking brake control unit that apply braking to the vehicle on the basis of an operation by a driver and the emergency operation signal output by the emergency determining unit.

Abstract: An anti-inflammatory agent or cancer-preventive agent comprising 4-vinyl-2,6-dimethoxyphenol of the formula (1): or a PD thereof.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided that includes a first casing disposed on a first side in a first direction, and a second casing disposed on a second side in the first direction, the second casing containing an image reading unit, a driver driving the image reading unit, and a driver compartment configured to accommodate the driver and disposed at an end portion of the second casing on a third side in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first casing containing an image forming unit, a control board electrically connected with the driver and the image reading unit and configured to control the image reading unit, and a board compartment configured to accommodate at least a part of the control board and disposed at an end portion of the first casing on a fourth side opposite to the third side in the second direction.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle control apparatus. The vehicle control apparatus includes: an automatic return type select switch that receives an operation for selecting an operating condition of an automatic transmission and outputs a selection signal corresponding to the received selection operation; a switch controller that switches the operating condition of the automatic transmission in accordance with the selection signal output by the select switch; an emergency determining unit that determines whether or not the select switch has been operated consecutively at least a predetermined number of times within a predetermined period while the vehicle travels, and outputs an emergency operation signal when determining that the select switch has been operated consecutively; and a brake control unit and an electric parking brake control unit that apply braking to the vehicle on the basis of an operation by a driver and the emergency operation signal output by the emergency determining unit.

Abstract: A stator provided with annular split stator cores, formed by stacking steel plates. Each plate includes a yoke and a stator tooth. The cores include a yoke portion a stator tooth portion. The stator is manufactured by arranging an electromagnetic steel plate between a first die and a second die. The first die has a hole shaped as a steel plate. The second die has a projection inserted into the hole and shaped as a steel plate. The steel plates are formed by the first and the second dies. In a gap between an inner surface of the first die that defines the hole and an outer surface of the projection, a gap at a part that forms the stator tooth portion is larger than a gap at a part that defines a circumferential end surface of the yoke portion located in a circumferential direction of the stator core.

Abstract: Provided is a crossover module, which can facilitate the process of manufacturing a stator. The crossover module (20) is a module having crossovers (23) for connecting such coils (13) electrically with each other as are mounted on a stator core (11) of a motor (100). The crossover module (20) is constituted such that its shape can be changed between a shape, in which it is mounted on the stator core (11), and a shape, in which it is opened to the outer sides from the former shape.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drum for a shot blasting apparatus that uniformly treats the works to be treated by increasing the level of agitation of the works that are buried at the bottom of the drum, and, further, suppressing the traces of collisions on the works, which traces are caused by the works colliding with each other. The present invention also provides the shot blasting apparatus using the drum. The drum comprises a hollow middle part, a lower-half part having the shape of a truncated cone, having a closed, bottom, and having a projecting part for agitating that is connected to both the lower-half part and the middle part, and that agitates the works, wherein the projecting part for agitating has at least two surfaces, one being the surface for picking-up the works and the other being the surface for having the works slide down.

Abstract: A battery unit includes a casing, bipolar batteries as a plurality of stacked type batteries housed in the casing, and a plug. The bipolar battery is formed by stacking a plurality of battery elements each having sheet electrodes on opposite sides of an electrolyte, and has collectors. The plug is detachably inserted between the bipolar batteries, and electrically connects bipolar batteries.

Abstract: A battery module includes; a plurality of battery cell packs; a plurality of heat dissipation plates and a cooler that absorbs heat radiated from the battery cell packs and absorbed by the heat dissipation plates. The battery cell packs and the heat dissipation plates being alternately stacked. Each of the heat dissipation plates has an interlayer plate portion that is in contact with corresponding two of the battery cell packs and side wall plate portions that extend in the stacking direction with respect to the interlayer plate portion on both end sides of the interlayer plate portion and that are in contact with the cooler at outer faces thereof, and each of the heat dissipation plates has a low thermal resistance region between the interlayer plate portion and each side wall plate portion, the low thermal resistance region having a lower thermal resistance than the interlayer plate portion.

Abstract: To provide a novel shot-blasting machine to eliminate a dead space for a cover that shuts an opening for feeding and taking out works and to open and close the cover by moving a rotary drum around an axis. The machine has a cabinet 11, a rotary drum 13 having holes, and a centrifugal shooting machine 15. The rotary drum 13 moves, within the cabinet 11, around an axis through the positions for feeding, processing, and taking out the works. The cabinet 11 comprises a cover 51 for shutting an opening 11b for feeding and taking out the works. It has a wall 59 for sealing the side of the opening lib. The cover 51 is integrated with the rotary drum 13 to move around the axis. It has walls 51a, 51b, 51d that fit the wall 59 for sealing. Lip seals 61, 63 seal the gap between the walls 51a, 51b, 51d of the cover 51 and the wall 59 for sealing.

Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, when a stator winding is wound in concentrated winding, an improvement in performance is achieved by reducing a magnetomotive force harmonic without reducing a fundamental wave magnetic flux generated by a stator. A rotating electrical machine (10) includes a rotor (18), and two stators (14, 16) opposed with the rotor (18) being interposed therebetween either on both sides of the rotor (18) in the axial direction or on both sides of the rotor (18) in the radial direction. Stator windings (22) provided in a plurality of portions in the circumferential direction of each stator (14, 16) are wound in concentrated winding. The directions of magnetic fluxes generated by stator windings (22) having the same phase in the stators (14, 16) are in mutually opposite directions with respect to either the axial direction or the radial direction.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotation shaft arranged rotatably, a rotor having a storing hole capable of storing a permanent magnet, including the permanent magnet stored in the storing hole, and being fixed to the rotation shaft, a stator facing the rotor and including a coil, an end plate provided at an axial end of the rotor, a coolant passage formed in the end plate and running along an axial end of the permanent magnet for allowing a coolant to flow, and a discharge hole located at a radially inner side of the rotor with respect to a cooling target region including the permanent magnet and being located at an outer circumferential side of the rotor from a radially inner end of the permanent magnet, the discharge hole communicating with the coolant passage and being capable of discharging the coolant.

Abstract: There is provided a rotating electric machine capable of preventing a coolant from being retained at an outer surface of a rotor. This rotating electric machine includes a rotation shaft provided so as to be rotatable, a core body secured to the rotation shaft, a permanent magnet embedded in the core body, and an end plate provided so as to be opposed to an axial end surface of the core body. A first coolant channel is formed in the rotation shaft to allow a coolant to flow therethrough. A second coolant channel is formed between the end plate and the axial end surface of the core body to communicate with the first coolant channel. A partition wall that partitions the second coolant channel in a circumferential direction and a path wall that guides the coolant in the second coolant channel toward an outer peripheral edge region of the axial end surface where the permanent magnet is placed are formed inside the second coolant channel.

Abstract: A process for producing inorganic spheres, which comprises injecting an aqueous liquid containing an inorganic compound into a laminar flow of an organic liquid which runs at a flow rate of from 0.001 to 2 m/s in a flow path through a porous membrane to form a W/O type emulsion and solidifying the aqueous liquid containing an inorganic compound in the W/O type emulsion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a display unit, which is configured to display information, an electric substrate, which is configured to manipulate the display unit to display the information, a cover, which is formed to have an opening in a position corresponding to the display unit, and an insulating sheet, which is arranged to cover the opening and includes a first sheet and a second sheet, the first sheet and the second sheet being arranged to interpose the cover in there-between. The first sheet is arranged on one of two sides of the cover closer to the display unit. The second sheet is arranged on an opposite side of the cover further from the display unit.

Abstract: An anti-inflammatory agent or cancer-preventive agent comprising 4-vinyl-2,6-dimethoxyphenol of the formula (1): or a PD thereof.

Abstract: Heat discharging property of the stator coil end is improved effectively in a rotating electric machine. A motor as the rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and resin mold coil ends provided on both axial ends thereof. Column-shaped projections projecting in the axial direction are provided on axial side surfaces of resin mold coil ends at a plurality of positions. Cooling oil supplied from above the resin mold coil ends effectively cools the resin mold coil ends.

Abstract: A fuel cell electrolyte membrane (2) includes a first electrolyte membrane (5) formed from a basic polymer including a phosphoric acid, and second and third electrolyte membranes (6, 7) each formed from a basic polymer including a phosphoric acid and clamping the first electrolyte membrane (5) between the second and third electrolyte membranes (6, 7). The phosphoric acid contained in the first electrolyte membrane (5) is greater than the phosphoric acid contained in each of the second and third electrolyte membranes (6, 7) in concentration.

Abstract: A gas/liquid mixing equipment of the present invention comprises a stirring vessel 1, a stirring shaft 10 inserted horizontally in the stirring vessel 1 and a helical ribbon impeller 20 attached to the stirring shaft 10, whereby a high gas absorption performance can be secured even with low shearing. Further, a polymer can be produced with high productivity. A gas/liquid mixing method of the present invention is a method which comprises employing the above-mentioned gas/liquid mixing equipment, and a method for producing a polymer of the present invention is a method which comprises polymerizing feed monomers containing gaseous monomers in aqueous solvents, wherein the gaseous monomers and the aqueous solvents are mixed by such a gas/liquid mixing method. A polymer of the present invention is produced by the above-mentioned method for producing a polymer.

Abstract: A connection line has a first bent portion bent toward a coil's main body in a vicinity of a stator core's axial length limit line. Furthermore, the connection line at a portion closer to the coil's main body than the first bent portion has a second bent portion bent away from the coil's main body. Furthermore, the connection line has a third bent portion bent away from the coil's main body to have a connection portion along an end surface of the terminal member in contact therewith generally parallel thereto.