Abstract: [Object] To provide a scroll compressor capable of improving compression efficiency. [Means of Solution] In a scroll compressor 1, a fixed scroll 16 includes a fixed base plate 16c, and a fixed spiral wrap 16d integral with the fixed base plate 16c, while a movable scroll 22 includes a movable base plate 22a facing to the fixed base plate 16c and a movable spiral wrap 22b integral with the movable base plate 22a and meshing with the fixed spiral wrap 16d.

Abstract: A traction control device for a motorcycle eliminates a need for a waiting time for detecting an amount of change in a vehicle state and a subsequent prediction time, and can execute quick traction control. The traction control device includes an engine driving force control unit, for calculating a real slip ratio of the motorcycle, setting a target slip ratio according to a driving state of the motorcycle, and controlling a driving force of an engine so that the real slip ratio becomes the target slip ratio. The traction control device also includes a throttle grip opening degree sensor for detecting an opening degree of a throttle grip; and a bank angle sensor for detecting a bank angle of the motorcycle. The engine driving force control unit calculates the target slip ratio on a basis of the throttle opening degree and the bank angle of the motorcycle.

Abstract: Provided is an actuator, an optical pickup, and a disc apparatus, with improved assembling workability and reduced manufacturing cost. The actuator of the optical pickup of the disc apparatus includes a movable part and a fixed part supporting the movable part in a movable manner. The movable part includes a case and a plurality of drive substrates having the same specification. The drive substrates are disposed at positions opposed to each other with respect to the case. Each drive substrate includes a winding member for driving the movable part and a wiring pattern for supplying current to the winding member. The wiring pattern includes a plurality of electrodes and a conductive path. The electrodes are disposed at positions opposed to each other with respect to the winding member. The conductive path is branched from one end of the winding member and is connected to the electrodes.

Abstract: A battery-less multi-rotation encoder including detection coils with the Barkhausen effect includes a rotation detection mechanism and a signal processing circuit. The detection coils generate voltage pulses with different positive and negative signs, and transmit them to the signal processing circuit, and the signal processing circuit includes a controller and an adder. The controller can set states of the detection coils to be High or Low and to maintain them at High or Low, based on the positive and negative signs of the respective voltage pulses and no voltage pulse being generated therefrom. The controller is configured to store the states of the respective detection coils in a memory. The adder can update a number of rotations according to the changes in the states of the respective detection coils. The signal processing circuit can determine the rotational angle of a rotational shaft within about 1/4 rotation unit.

Abstract: In a build-up step, a plurality of resin insulation layers and a plurality of conductive layers are alternately laminated in multilayer arrangement on a metal foil separably laminated on a side of a base material, thereby forming a wiring laminate portion. In a drilling step, a plurality of openings are formed in an outermost resin insulation layer through laser drilling so as to expose connection terminals. Subsequently, in a desmear step, smears from inside the openings are removed. In a base-material removing step performed after the build-up step, the base material is removed and the metal foil is exposed.

Abstract: A wiring substrate according to the present invention includes a laminate of one or more insulation layers and one or more conductive layers and further includes a plurality of connection terminals formed on the laminate and spaced apart from one another, each having a step formed at the outer periphery of a first main surface opposite a contact surface in contact with the laminate, and a filling member provided in a filling manner between the connection terminals.

Abstract: In a build-up step, a plurality of resin insulation layers and a plurality of conductive layers are alternately laminated in multilayer arrangement on a metal foil separably laminated on a side of a base material, thereby forming a wiring laminate portion. In a drilling step, a plurality of openings are formed in an outermost resin insulation layer through laser drilling so as to expose connection terminals. Subsequently, in a desmear step, smears from inside the openings are removed. In a base-material removing step performed after the build-up step, the base material is removed and the metal foil is exposed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present wiring substrate include a stacked body including one or more insulation layers and one or more conductive layers, wherein the wiring substrate has a plurality of connection terminals formed on the stacked body, each connection terminal has a top surface whose area is smaller than that of each of opposite side surfaces thereof, and a filling member provided in a filling manner between the connection terminals. The top surface of each connection terminal has an area larger than that of a portion of each side surfaces portion exposed from the filling member, and a bonding layer containing a solder is formed on the top surface.

Abstract: A device for measuring tooth surface deviation includes a contact detector that measures the deviation at the tooth surface of a dresser with respect to a grinding tooth surface formed on a helical grinding tooth of a grinding tool when the grinding tool and a dresser toothed wheel are rotated synchronously in a state in which the grinding tooth surface and the dresser tooth surface of the dresser toothed wheel can be brought into contact, and detects contact between the grinding tooth surface and the dresser tooth surface; and a controller that changes the speed of rotation of the dresser toothed wheel in such a way that the detection result of the contact detector comes within the range of contact determination data, and also measures the amount by which the grinding tool and the dresser toothed wheel have been changed in one revolution of the dresser toothed wheel.

Abstract: A wiring board includes a base layer, a plurality of connection terminals and a surface layer. The base layer is electrically insulative. The plurality of connection terminals are conductive and formed on the base layer. The surface layer is electrically insulative, and fills gaps between the plurality of connection terminals on the base layer. The connection terminals include a base portion made of a conductive first metal and a coating portion made of a conductive second metal that is different from the first metal. The coating portion penetrates the surface layer, and coats the base portion to the base layer.

Abstract: In a wiring laminate portion of a multilayer wiring substrate, a solder resist layer having a plurality of openings is disposed on a main surface side of the laminate structure, and connection terminals are embedded in an outermost resin insulation layer in contact with the solder resist layer. Each of the connection terminals comprises a copper layer and a metallic layer formed of at least one type of metal other than copper. A main-surface-side circumferential portion of the copper layer is covered by the solder resist layer. At least a portion of the metallic layer is located in a recess in a main-surface-side central portion of the copper layer. At least a portion of the metallic layer is exposed via a corresponding opening.

Abstract: An electric working machine including: an input part; a control unit configured to control a motor in accordance with an operation amount of the input part; and a switching part; wherein, when a predetermined operation is performed to the switching part, the control unit shifts to a fixed control mode in which the motor is controlled in accordance with an operation amount of the input part at the time when the predetermined operation is performed to the switching part, irrespective of an operation amount of the input part after the predetermined operation is performed to the switching part.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bushing assembly that includes a vibration damping rubber bushing having a round cylindrical resin outer cylinder, which is assembled by press fitting an outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder in an axial direction into a cylindrical metal mated component having a circular inside peripheral face. The vibration damping rubber bushing is press fit into the mated component with a rigid powder composed of material harder than the outer cylinder deposited in a section of the resin outer cylinder that is situated on the outside peripheral face and that mates with the inside peripheral face of the mated component, and the outer cylinder and the mated component are assembled in a mated condition such that the rigid powder intervenes between the outside peripheral face of the outer cylinder and the inside peripheral face of the mated component.

Abstract: A gear grinding tool, which includes a helical tooth with grinding faces on surfaces thereof, grinds tooth faces of a gear as a workpiece with the grinding faces. The grinding face includes a rough grinding face for performing a rough grinding process. The grinding face includes a rough grinding face for performing a rough grinding process, and the rough grinding face includes a forming line for performing a finishing process.

Abstract: A compressor includes a housing having a discharge chamber into which compressed refrigerant gas is discharged, an oil separation chamber, a passage connecting between the discharge chamber and the oil separation chamber, and an outlet port through which the refrigerant gas passed through the oil separation chamber flows out of the housing; and a cylindrical oil separator provided in the oil separation chamber. The oil separator includes a large-diameter portion, a small-diameter portion, and an intermediate portion formed between the large-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion and tapered toward the small-diameter portion. Plural holes are formed in the periphery of the small-diameter portion of the oil separator. The passage is directed toward the small-diameter portion of the oil separator in such a manner that the refrigerant gas swirls around the small-diameter portion, so that the refrigerant gas from which lubricating oil is separated enters the oil separator through the hole.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage controller of a storage apparatus includes an array management unit managing an array. The array includes a plurality of stripe groups. A set of an error correcting code block and a plurality of data blocks is arranged in each of the plurality of stripe groups. Each of the plurality of stripe groups includes a set of stripe blocks of which physical positions correspond to each other in the plurality of solid state drives. The array management unit regularly arranges the error correcting code blocks and the data blocks in the plurality of stripe groups such that the numbers of the arranged error correcting code blocks are non-uniform among the plurality of solid state drives.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a motor-driven compressor being fixable reliably to a vehicle or the like and being capable of reliably protecting elements accommodated in a housing even upon reception of an external force due to a collision by any possibility. A motor-driven compressor of the invention comprises a compression mechanism for compressing fluid, an electric motor for driving the compression mechanism, a motor drive circuit for driving the electric motor, and a housing. The housing accommodates the compression mechanism, the electric motor, and the motor drive circuit. A cover for protecting the housing from an external force caused by a collision is fixed to the outside of the housing. The cover is arranged via a clearance with respect to the housing, and absorbs the external force applied to the cover by the clearance.

Abstract: A multilayered wiring substrate, comprising: a plurality of first main surface side connecting terminals arranged in a first main surface of a stack structure; and a plurality of second main surface side connecting terminals being arranged in a second main surface of the stack structure; wherein a plurality of conductor layers are alternately formed in a plurality of stacked resin insulation layers and are operably connected to each other through via conductors tapered such that diameters thereof are widened toward the first or the second main surface, wherein a plurality of openings are formed in an exposed outermost resin insulation layer in the second main surface, and terminal outer surfaces of the second main surface side connecting terminals arranged to match with the plurality of the openings are positioned inwardly from an outer main surface of the exposed outermost resin insulation layer, and edges of terminal inner surfaces are rounded.

Abstract: A method is for controlling a droplet discharge device including at least a droplet discharge head having a plurality of nozzles for discharging droplets of a functional liquid, a plurality of drive elements provided corresponding to each of the nozzles, and a vibrating plate which is vibrated by the drive elements to discharge the functional liquid from the nozzles; and a flushing unit in which the vibrating plate undergoes microvibration when the droplet discharge head is in a standby period. The method for controlling a droplet discharge device includes selecting one of a plurality of predetermined microvibration control programs for causing the vibrating plate to undergo microvibration in accordance with information relating to the functional liquid, and controlling the drive elements to cause the vibrating plate to undergo microvibration when the droplet discharge head is in the standby period in accordance with the selected microvibration control program.

Abstract: A traction control device for a motorcycle eliminates a need for a waiting time for detecting an amount of change in a vehicle state and a subsequent prediction time, and can execute quick traction control. The traction control device includes an engine driving force control unit, for calculating a real slip ratio of the motorcycle, setting a target slip ratio according to a driving state of the motorcycle, and controlling a driving force of an engine so that the real slip ratio becomes the target slip ratio. The traction control device also includes a throttle grip opening degree sensor for detecting an opening degree of a throttle grip; and a bank angle sensor for detecting a bank angle of the motorcycle. The engine driving force control unit calculates the target slip ratio on a basis of the throttle opening degree and the bank angle of the motorcycle.