Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning system includes a refrigerant circuit, a heat medium circuit, a vehicle-interior heat exchanger, a vehicle-exterior heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger disposed in series with respect to a flow of air generated by an air blower, a switching unit, a detection unit for detecting a degree of frost formation, and a control device. The operation mode includes a defrosting mode in which the heat medium in the high-temperature medium circuit is supplied to a defrosting target to be selected as either the first or second heat exchanger by the operation of the switching unit. The control device selects, as the defrosting target, the first heat exchanger in preference to the second heat exchanger when determined that both the first and the second heat exchangers need to be defrosted.

Abstract: A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including internal electrodes laminated and drawn to a surface of the ceramic body; and an external electrode including: a base film disposed on the surface of the ceramic body, connected to the internal electrodes, and formed from an electrically conductive material, a first nickel film disposed on and in contact with the base film in a thickness direction of the base film, and a second nickel film disposed on the first nickel film in a thickness direction of the first nickel film.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body that has internal electrodes stacked in a direction of a first axis, and end surfaces perpendicular to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, the internal electrodes being alternately led out to the end surfaces, and external electrodes covering the end surfaces of the ceramic body, wherein each of the external electrodes includes a base film formed on a corresponding one of the end surfaces and connected to the plurality of internal electrodes, a first Ni film formed on the base film, a metal film that is formed on the first Ni film and contains a metal having a lower ionization tendency than Ni, as a main component, a second Ni film formed on the metal film and having a higher hydrogen concentration than the first Ni film, and a surface layer film formed on the second Ni film.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body having internal electrodes stacked in a direction of a first axis, and end surfaces perpendicular to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis, and external electrodes covering the end surfaces of the ceramic body, respectively, wherein each of the external electrodes includes a base film formed on a corresponding one of the end surfaces and connected to the plurality of internal electrodes that are led out to the corresponding end surface, a first Ni film formed on the base film, a second Ni film formed on the first Ni film, a surface layer film formed on the second Ni film, and a metal film that is formed between the first Ni film and the second Ni film and contains a metal having a Young's modulus lower than that of Ni, as a main component.

Abstract: A method of producing a multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: forming a base film formed from an electrically conductive material on a surface of a ceramic body including internal electrodes laminated and drawn to the surface in such a manner that the base film is connected to the internal electrodes; forming a first nickel film on the base film by an electrolytic plating method; performing, after forming the first nickel film, heat treatment in a weakly reducing atmosphere at a temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which the first nickel film is recrystallized; and forming a second nickel film on the first nickel film, on which the heat treatment is performed, by an electrolytic plating method.

Abstract: A metal-covered liquid crystal polyester multifilament, comprising: two or more metal-covered liquid crystal polyester monofilaments in which a surface of each liquid crystal polyester monofilament is covered with a metal having a thickness of 0.1 to 20 ?m, wherein in a cross-sectional photograph measured by X-ray CT, a percentage of a number of stuck fibers in which the two or more metal-covered liquid crystal polyester monofilaments are stuck is 75% or less with respect to a total number of fibers.

Abstract: To provide a separator which has a combination of a preferable air permeability enabling high prevention of internal short circuit and a high retention rate of such an air permeability in an electrolytic solution, and has more improved uniformity of the air permeability. A separator comprising a porous sheet and cellulose nanofibers, wherein the porous sheet comprises a binder component having the SP value of 11 to 16 (cal/cm3)1/2, and the porous sheet has the cellulose nanofibers at the inside and on the surface thereof, and wherein the cellulose nanofibers are combined with the porous sheet by fusion of the binder component.

Abstract: A method of producing a multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: forming a base film formed from an electrically conductive material on a surface of a ceramic body including internal electrodes laminated and drawn to the surface in such a manner that the base film is connected to the internal electrodes; forming a first nickel film on the base film by an electrolytic plating method; performing, after forming the first nickel film, heat treatment in a weakly reducing atmosphere at a temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which the first nickel film is recrystallized; and forming a second nickel film on the first nickel film, on which the heat treatment is performed, by an electrolytic plating method.

Abstract: To provide a separator which has a combination of a preferable air permeability enabling high prevention of internal short circuit and a high retention rate of such an air permeability in an electrolytic solution, and has more improved uniformity of the air permeability. A separator comprising a porous sheet and cellulose nanofibers, wherein the porous sheet comprises a binder component having the SP value of 11 to 16 (cal/cm3)1/2, and the porous sheet has the cellulose nanofibers at the inside and on the surface thereof, and wherein the cellulose nanofibers are combined with the porous sheet by fusion of the binder component.

Abstract: To provide a thermoplastic resin fiber to which a dispersant is attached, which can effectively disperse carbon fibers. A thermoplastic resin fiber to which a dispersant containing a random copolymer (A) of glycidyl ether and an alkylene oxide is attached in an amount of 0.1 to 20% by mass based on a total mass of thermoplastic resin fibers to which a dispersant is not attached.

Abstract: A method and a device can measure machine error of an axis of rotation in a tool post having a touch probe without restriction of an angular range of an angle of rotation. Directions of a measurement plane and a measurement axis in a five-axis measurement are switched in correspondence to a range of the angle of rotation in a touch probe. The five-axis measurement is carried out by setting a position in a direction of a measurement axis in a measurement plane to a position where a reference sphere does not interfere with a lever rod of the touch probe as occasion demands. The five-axis measurement is carried out, for example, by setting the measurement plane to a position which is perpendicular to a line connecting an estimated center of the reference sphere and a center of a tip sphere or the lever rod of the touch probe.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device controlling a chuck of a machine tool and an auxiliary equipment thereof, thereby facilitating a setup work. Gripping and releasing of a work are confirmed by registering a work gripping position and a work releasing position of a chuck, a kind of a used chuck, and a gripping direction of a work in an external memory device every product type of the work, transferring the work gripping position and the work releasing position in correspondence to the product type to a controller of a machine tool displaying them on a display of an operator control panel, detecting a position of an operation rod opening and closing a claw of the chuck by a stroke sensor, referring to the gripping position of the work, and detecting conformity of the detecting position and set values of the work gripping position and the work releasing position.

Abstract: A method and a device can measure machine error of an axis of rotation in a tool post having a touch probe without restriction of an angular range of an angle of rotation. Directions of a measurement plane and a measurement axis in a five-axis measurement are switched in correspondence to a range of the angle of rotation in a touch probe. The five-axis measurement is carried out by setting a position in a direction of a measurement axis in a measurement plane to a position where a reference sphere does not interfere with a lever rod of the touch probe as occasion demands. The five-axis measurement is carried out, for example, by setting the measurement plane to a position which is perpendicular to a line connecting an estimated center of the reference sphere and a center of a tip sphere or the lever rod of the touch probe.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device controlling a chuck of a machine tool and an auxiliary equipment thereof, thereby facilitating a setup work. Gripping and releasing of a work are confirmed by registering a work gripping position and a work releasing position of a chuck, a kind of a used chuck, and a gripping direction of a work in an external memory device every product type of the work, transferring the work gripping position and the work releasing position in correspondence to the product type to a controller of a machine tool displaying them on a display of an operator control panel, detecting a position of an operation rod opening and closing a claw of the chuck by a stroke sensor, referring to the gripping position of the work, and detecting conformity of the detecting position and set values of the work gripping position and the work releasing position.

Abstract: A structural fiber product usable as an adsorbent or the like is provided. A graft component for forming a graft chain is graft-polymerized onto a structural fiber object; the structural fiber object comprises a fiber assembly comprising at least a conjugated fiber, and an ethylene-vinyl alcohol-series copolymer exists on at least part of a surface of the fiber. The graft polymerization may be conducted, for example, by exposing a structural fiber object to radiation to generate an active species and immersing the structural fiber object in a liquid containing a graft component to bring the structural fiber object into contact with the graft component. According to the method, the graft component can be polymerized at a high degree of grafting, and a structural fiber product having an excellent adsorption characteristic is obtained.

Abstract: A plaster agent comprising a water impermeable or water semipermeable film (layer a), one tackifier layer (layer b) laminated on one surface of said layer a, and another tackifier layer (layer d) laminated on said layer b through an intermediary knitted fabric having a weight per unit area of 10 to 100 g/m2 (layer c) comprising hollow fibers having pores extending therethrough in the outer peripheral direction and containing substantially no medicine internally thereof, and at least one of said layer b and said layer d containing a vaporizable or non-vaporizable medicine.

Abstract: A plaster agent comprising a water impermeable or water semipermeable film (layer a), one tackifier layer (layer b) laminated on one surface of said layer a, and another tackifier layer (layer d) laminated on said layer b through an intermediary knitted fabric having a weight per unit area of 10 to 100 g/m2 (layer c) comprising hollow fibers having pores extending therethrough in the outer peripheral direction and containing substantially no medicine internally thereof, and at least one of said layer b and said layer d containing a vaporizable or non-vaporizable medicine.

Abstract: A plaster agent comprising a water impermeable or water semipermeable film (layer a), one tackifier layer (layer b) laminated on one surface of said layer a, and another tackifier layer (layer d) laminated on said layer b through an intermediary knitted fabric having a weight per unit area of 10 to 100 g/m2 (layer c) comprising hollow fibers having pores extending therethrough in the outer peripheral direction and containing substantially no medicine internally thereof, and at least one of said layer b and said layer d containing a vaporizable or non-vaporizable medicine.

Abstract: A plaster agent comprising a water impermeable or water semipermeable film (layer a), one tackifier layer (layer b) laminated on one surface of said layer a, and another tackifier layer (layer d) laminated on said layer b through an intermediary knitted fabric having a weight per unit area of 10 to 100 g/m.sup.2 (layer c) comprising hollow fibers having pores extending therethrough in the outer peripheral direction and containing substantially no medicine internally thereof, and at least one of said layer b and said layer d containing a vaporizable or non-vaporizable medicine.