Abstract: A garnish includes a heating element, a base member, and a circuit board. The heating element is configured by stacking first and second sheet materials and interposing a heater wire in between. The circuit board includes a power source line and is fixed to a back surface of the base member. The heating element includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The extending portion includes a power source connection portion for connecting the heater wire to the power source line and extends to the back surface of the base member. The main body portion of the heating element is fixed to a laying surface of the base member by fixing the second sheet material to the base member. The heater wire is exposed in the power source connection portion without stacking the second sheet material on the first sheet material.

Abstract: A garnish includes a heating element, a base member, and a circuit board. The heating element is configured by stacking first and second sheet materials and interposing a heater wire in between. The circuit board includes a power source line and is fixed to a back surface of the base member. The heating element includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The extending portion includes a power source connection portion for connecting the heater wire to the power source line and extends to the back surface of the base member. The main body portion of the heating element is fixed to a laying surface of the base member by fixing the second sheet material to the base member. The heater wire is exposed in the power source connection portion without stacking the second sheet material on the first sheet material.

Abstract: A garnish includes a heating element, a base member, and a circuit board. The heating element is configured by stacking first and second sheet materials and interposing a heater wire in between. The circuit board includes a power source line and is fixed to a back surface of the base member. The heating element includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The extending portion includes a power source connection portion for connecting the heater wire to the power source line and extends to the back surface of the base member. The main body portion of the heating element is fixed to a laying surface of the base member by fixing the second sheet material to the base member. The heater wire is exposed in the power source connection portion without stacking the second sheet material on the first sheet material.

Abstract: A garnish includes a heating element, a base member, and a circuit board. The heating element is configured by stacking first and second sheet materials and interposing a heater wire in between. The circuit board includes a power source line and is fixed to a back surface of the base member. The heating element includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The extending portion includes a power source connection portion for connecting the heater wire to the power source line and extends to the back surface of the base member. The main body portion of the heating element is fixed to a laying surface of the base member by fixing the second sheet material to the base member. The heater wire is exposed in the power source connection portion without stacking the second sheet material on the first sheet material.

Abstract: A decorative component for a vehicle includes a decorative body portion having millimeter wave transmittance and a heating sheet. The decorative body portion is configured to decorate the vehicle by being attached to part of a vehicle on a leading side in a transmitting direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar device. The heating sheet includes a plastic sheet and a wire-shaped heater provided on the plastic sheet. At least a main portion of the heating sheet is provided integrally with the decorative body portion. The thickness in the front-rear direction is set uniform in at least a transmittance area of millimeter waves in the decorative body portion and the heating sheet.

Abstract: A decorative component for a vehicle includes a decorative body portion having millimeter wave transmittance and a heating sheet. The decorative body portion is configured to decorate the vehicle by being attached to part of a vehicle on a leading side in a transmitting direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar device. The heating sheet includes a plastic sheet and a wire-shaped heater provided on the plastic sheet. At least a main portion of the heating sheet is provided integrally with the decorative body portion. The thickness in the front-rear direction is set uniform in at least a transmittance area of millimeter waves in the decorative body portion and the heating sheet.

Abstract: A steering wheel including a rim, first heating members, second heating members, and a control section is provided. The rim has leather-covered portions and wood-grain portions. The surface of the leather-covered portions has a thermal conductivity different from the thermal conductivity of the surface of the wood-grain portions. Each first heating member is provided inside of the surface of the corresponding leather-covered portion. When being energized, each first heating member adjusts the surface temperature of the corresponding leather-covered portion. Each second heating member is provided inside of the surface of the corresponding wood-grain portion. When being energized, each second heating member adjusts the surface temperature of the corresponding wood-grain portion. The control section controls the energization of the first heating members and the energization of the second heating members independently from each other.

Abstract: A steering wheel including a rim, first heating members, second heating members, and a control section is provided. The rim has leather-covered portions and wood-grain portions. The surface of the leather-covered portions has a thermal conductivity different from the thermal conductivity of the surface of the wood-grain portions. Each first heating member is provided inside of the surface of the corresponding leather-covered portion. When being energized, each first heating member adjusts the surface temperature of the corresponding leather-covered portion. Each second heating member is provided inside of the surface of the corresponding wood-grain portion. When being energized, each second heating member adjusts the surface temperature of the corresponding wood-grain portion. The control section controls the energization of the first heating members and the energization of the second heating members independently from each other.

Abstract: A steering wheel has a rim part, and the rim part includes a rim core portion which is made through die casting and a rim cover portion which covers an outer surface of the rim core portion. The rim cover portion is provided with a rim cover body and a garnish made of a synthetic resin. A reinforcement member is provided on the garnish.

Abstract: A steering wheel has a rim part, and the rim part includes a rim core portion which is made through die casting and a rim cover portion which covers an outer surface of the rim core portion. The rim cover portion is provided with a rim cover body and a garnish made of a synthetic resin. A reinforcement member is provided on the garnish.

Abstract: Injection-molded articles consisting of an aliphatic polyester having a melt viscosity of 6.times.10.sup.2 -2.times.10.sup.4 poises at a temperature of 190.degree. C. at a shear rate of 1000 sec.sup.-1 and a melting point of 70.degree.-190.degree. C. The present invention provides injection-molded articles excellent in heat stability and mechanical strength as well as having biodegradability which can be used for industrial parts, automotive members, food and beverage containers, gardening pots and the like.

Abstract: A CVCF (Constant Voltage Constant Frequency) inverter includes a main circuit, a voltage control loop, and a frequency control loop. In a normal operating mode, constant voltage, constant frequency control is carried out by these loops. In a lap switching operation, if a comparator detects that the output current of the inverter exceeds a predetermined level, a switch is closed so that the effective power component computed by an effective power computing unit is inputted to the frequency control loop. The output frequency of the inverter is controlled by changing a reference frequency in response to the effective power. This reduces the phase difference between the output voltage of the inverter and an external power supply, thus decreasing a cross current. This makes it possible to protect the components of the inverter and to supply power reliably.

Abstract: A fuel assembly comprises a plurality of fuel rods, a lower tie plate for supporting lower ends of the fuel rods, and a channel box surrounding a bundle of the fuel rods and the circumference of the lower tie plate to thereby define a cooling water leak passage between the lower tie plate and the channel box. The fuel assembly includes a venturi provided in the lower tie plate for generating a force tending to attract the channel box toward the lower tie plate under the action of a leak stream of the cooling water passing through the cooling water leak passage. The fuel assembly also includes an arrangement provided in the lower tie plate for suppressing vibrations of the channel box caused upon an influence of the venturi.

Abstract: A nuclear fuel assembly has a plurality of fuel rods and a lower tie plate supporting their lower ends. Coolant apertures extending through the lower tie plate. A channel box surrounds the fuel rods and receives the lower tie plate, to confine the coolant. To restrict leakage of coolant between the tie plate and the channel box, the coolant apertures include, adjacent the periphery of the lower tie plate, a plurality of peripheral apertures which are located at least partly outside the outermost fuel rods. The peripheral apertures each provide a coolant velocity peak located further from the axial center line of the tie plate than the axial center lines of the closest neighboring fuel rods. The invention also provides venturis in the leakage path between the channel box and the tie plate, to restrict deformation of the tie plate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cover for a can-like container providing improved peelability of a handle. The cover is made by forming a second resin layer by injection molding or compression forming on a multi-layer sheet which oxygen, water, and the like cannot permeate. A thermally weldable first resin layer is provided on the upper surface of the multi-layer sheet. The handle is formed by the second resin layer. A treatment is carried out for allowing the handle to be easily peeled off the multi-layer sheet to all or part of a region of the multi-layer sheet in contact with the underside of the handle.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising (A) at least one heat-resistant resin, (B) at least one thermoplastic resin, (C) an antimony oxide, (D) at least one bromine-containing reaction product selected from the group consisting of (1) a compound having a molecular weight of from 1,200 to 6,000 and a bromine content of from 5.0 to 60% by weight which is obtained by reacting a bromine-containing epoxy compound and 1,3,5-tribromophenol, and (2) a compound obtained by reacting a bromine-containing epoxy compound having an epoxy equivalent of from 450 to 7,000 and a bromine content of from 5.0 to 52% by weight and an acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer having a carboxyl group at the both terminals thereof and a molecular weight of from 1,000 to 10,000, and (E) at least one silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of (1) silicone oil, (2) a ladder silicone resin, and (3) an alkoxysilane having a mercapto group, a vinyl group or a methacryloyl group, is disclosed.

Abstract: An optical disk substrate is disclosed, which is molded from a terpolymer composed of (A) an aromatic vinyl monomer, (B) cyclohexylmaleimide, and (C) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylonitrile, isobornyl (meth)acrylate and cyclohexyl (meth)acrylate, with the cyclohexyl maleimide being copolymerized in an amount of from 5 to 60 wt % of said terpolymer. The optical disk substrate exhibits high heat resistance, low water absorption and low birefringence.

Abstract: A fuel assembly including a plurality of fuel rods and water rods. The fuel rods are arranged with a predetermined pitch and two water rods are disposed adjacent to each other in a diagonal direction of the fuel assembly. More particularly, the fuel rods are arranged in a lattice of nine rows by nine columns and the two water rods are disposed inside a region corresponding to a space sufficient for disposing seven fuel rods at the center of the fuel assembly. Each of the water rods has an outer diameter greater than the pitch of the fuel rods.

Abstract: An injection molding method in which an insert is inserted into a metal mold assembly in advance of molten material by providing a guide member having an aperture in which the insert is inserted, the insert and aperture having relative dimensions such that the insert is forcibly retained in the aperture and to properly locate the insert for injection molding and thereby prevent displacement of the insert during injection molding.

Abstract: A channel box and/or a spacer of a fuel assembly is a welded construction and made of a Zr-Nb-Sn alloy comprising 0.5-2.2 wt % Nb, 0.5-1.5 wt % Sn contained so as to satisfy the relation of Sn(wt %) 22.times.Nb(wt %)--3.0, and balance Zr or a Zr-Nb-Sn-Mo alloy comprising 0.5-2.2 wt % Nb, 0.5-1.5 wt % Sn contained so as to satisfy the relation of Sn(wt %).gtoreq.2.times.Nb(wt %)--0.3, 0.1-0.8 wt % Mo, and balance Zr. The welded portion, its heat affected zone and the unwelded portion of the channel box and/or the spacer have substantially the whole equilibrium phase structure.