Abstract: An optical fiber protection structure has a fiber accommodation portion having a fiber accommodation groove formed therein for accommodating at least a portion of optical fibers and first resins filled in the fiber accommodation groove. The first resins are to fix a portion of the optical fibers within the fiber accommodation groove. The optical fiber protection structure has a cover member disposed above the fiber accommodation portion so as to cover the fiber accommodation groove, second resins for allowing the first resins to expand toward the cover member to reduce a stress applied to the optical fibers, and a third resin for fixing the cover member onto the fiber accommodation portion. The second resins have a Young's modulus lower than those of the first resins.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a rotor; a plurality of slits that are formed in the rotor, the plurality of vanes being respectively inserted into the plurality of slits in a slidable manner; a cam ring that has a cam face on which tip-ends of the vanes slide by the rotation of the rotor; and pump chambers that are defined by the rotor, the cam ring, and an adjacent pair of the vanes. The plurality of vanes have a plurality of first vanes that are formed by applying a DLC coating on a base material and second vanes that are formed such that the base material is exposed, the first vanes being respectively inserted into at least two adjacent slits of the plurality of slits.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a pump cartridge that is accommodated in an accommodating space defined by the concave portion and the pump cover. The pump cartridge includes a first side plate that is provided between the bottom portion of the concave portion in the pump body and a cam ring; first pins that are provided so as to extend from the cam ring to the first side plate; and second pins that are provided so as to extend from the first side plate to the pump body.

Abstract: Provided is an optical coupler configured to cause an NA of light, which exits a taper fiber, to be smaller as compared with a conventional optical coupler. A taper fiber has a high refractive index part which is provided inside a core of the taper fiber and which has a refractive index smaller than a refractive index ncore of the core. An exit end surface of each GI fiber is bonded to an entrance end surface of the taper fiber so that at least a part of the exit end surface of the each GI fiber overlaps with a section of the high refractive index part. A relative refractive index difference of the taper fiber is smaller than 0.076%.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a high-pressure chamber formed as a groove in a bottom portion of a pump-accommodating concave portion. The working fluid is discharged from a plurality of discharge ports leading to the high-pressure chamber. A high-pressure passage has an opening portion opening to the high-pressure chamber and guides the working fluid to the outside of the high-pressure chamber. In the vane pump, one of the plurality of discharge ports is arranged so as to face the opening portion of the high-pressure passage, and the flow-passage cross-sectional area of the high-pressure chamber is smaller than the total flow-passage cross-sectional area of the plurality of the discharge ports.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a rotor; a plurality of vanes; a cam ring; and a pump body having an accommodating concave portion accommodating the cam ring. The cam ring includes a ring fitting portions formed in a plurality of regions on an outer circumference and a ring small-diameter portions formed on the outer circumference so as to have an outer diameter smaller than those of the ring fitting portions. The accommodating concave portion has a body fitting portion to which the ring fitting portions is fitted and a body large-diameter portions formed on the inner circumference in a plurality of regions so as to have an inner diameter lager than that of the body fitting portions.

Abstract: A pump device includes: a main pump and a sub pump; and a switching valve that switches so as to supply the hydraulic oil discharged from the sub pump to the hydraulic device, or to return the hydraulic oil discharged from the sub pump to the suction side. The main pump and the sub pump each include: a rotor, a discharge port into which the hydraulic oil discharged from a pump chamber is led, and a groove-shaped discharge-side notch formed from an opening edge of the discharge port toward a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the rotor. The switching valve switches according to a rotation speed of the drive shaft. At least one discharge-side notch of the sub pump is formed so that a resistance applied to the flow of the hydraulic oil passing therethrough is greater than that of the discharge-side notch of the main pump.

Abstract: A variable displacement vane pump includes: a control orifice that imparts resistance to a flow of working oil discharged from pump chambers; a flow-amount control valve that operates in accordance with an upstream-downstream differential pressure of the control orifice and controls a flow amount of the working oil discharged from the pump chambers; a variable control valve that is operated by the working oil that has passed through the control orifice and controls an amount of eccentricity of a cam ring with respect to a rotor by controlling a pressure difference between a first fluid pressure chamber and a second fluid pressure chamber; and a return passage that is connected to the flow-amount control valve and circulates a part of the working oil discharged from the pump chambers through a suction passage.

Abstract: A vane pump used as a fluid pressure source includes: a rotor that is rotationally driven; a plurality of vanes that are inserted into the rotor in a freely slidable manner; a cam ring at which tip-end portions of the vanes slides as the rotor rotates; a pump chamber that is defined between the adjacent vanes; a suction port that guides working fluid to the pump chamber; a discharge port through which the working fluid discharged from the pump chamber is guided; a groove-like notch that extends from an opening edge of the discharge port in an opposite direction from rotation direction of the rotor, and the notch has a gradient-changing portion at which a rate of change of opening area is decreased in the rotation direction of the rotor.

Abstract: A vane pump includes a rotor, vanes, pump chambers, a suction port, and a discharge port. The side member has a first transition section and a second transition section. The first transition section is a section from an end point of the suction port to a start point of the discharge port. The second transition section is a section from an end point of the discharge port to a start point of the suction port. An angle between the start point and the end point of the suction port is set such that a pressurizing timing is offset from a depressurizing timing. The pressurizing timing is a timing at which one pump chamber starts to communicate with the discharge port from the first transition section, and the depressurizing timing is a timing at which another pump chamber starts to communicate with the suction port from the second transition section.

Abstract: The vane pump includes a rotor, a plurality of slits, vanes that are respectively received in the slits, a cam ring that has an inner circumferential cam face with which tip portions of the vanes are brought into sliding contact, pump chambers that are defined by the rotor, the cam ring, and the adjacent vanes, a side member that has a sliding contact surface with which the side surface of the rotor is brought into sliding contact, a discharge port that is formed so as to open to the side member, the discharge port being configured to guide working fluid discharged from the pump chamber, and a notch that are provided on the side member so as to extend from the opening of the discharge port in direction opposite to rotating direction of the rotor. The notch is formed radially outside of the protruded portion of the rotor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method of hexachloroacetone, including performing a reaction between at least one kind of compound (A) selected from the group consisting of acetone and chloroacetones having a chlorine atom number of from 1 to 5, and a chlorine molecule (B) in a solvent in the presence of an activated carbon, to obtain the hexachloroacetone.

Abstract: Provided is an optical coupler configured to cause an NA of light, which exits a taper fiber, to be smaller as compared with a conventional optical coupler. A taper fiber has a high refractive index part which is provided inside a core of the taper fiber and which has a refractive index smaller than a refractive index ncore of the core. An exit end surface of each GI fiber is bonded to an entrance end surface of the taper fiber so that at least a part of the exit end surface of the each GI fiber overlaps with a section of the high refractive index part. A relative refractive index difference of the taper fiber is smaller than 0.076%.

Abstract: A pump device includes a flow control valve that returns a part of working fluid discharged from a pump to the suction side, and the flow control valve includes a valve body, a first fluid pressure chamber that is provided so as to face against a first-side end surface of the valve body and that is communicated with a discharge channel, a second fluid pressure chamber that is provided so as to face against a second-side end surface of the valve body and that is communicated with the discharge channel, a biasing member that is accommodated in the second fluid pressure chamber for biasing the valve body in the valve-closing direction, and a pressure regulator that is provided in a communicating passage through which the discharge channel is communicated with the second fluid pressure chamber and that adjusts pressure in the second fluid pressure chamber.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a muffler includes: a trimming step, of cutting out a dogleg shaped muffler body member; a bending processing step of processing the muffler body member into a tube by advancing the muffler body member between an upper roller and a lower roller of a bending machine while adjusting an advancing direction with a guide and by changing a relative position of the upper roller and the lower roller; a first joining step of joining two ends of the tubularly-processed muffler body member in a long side direction; an insertion step of inserting an inner structural member into the inside of the tubularly-processed muffler body member; a second joining step of joining caps to opening portions of the tubularly-processed muffler body member; and a third joining step of joining an air intake joint and an exhaust pipe to the sealed muffler body member.

Abstract: A variable displacement vane pump includes: a rotor to be rotatively driven; a plurality of vanes slidably housed in the rotor; a cam ring allowed of eccentric with respect to a center of the rotor, the cam ring having an inner circumferential cam surface in sliding contact with a distal end portion of the vane; a pump chamber defined by the adjacent vanes, the rotor, and the cam ring; a suction port to guide hydraulic fluid to be suctioned to the pump chamber; and a discharge port to guide hydraulic fluid to be discharged from the pump chamber. An outer circumference of an opening portion of the suction port is formed so as to be positioned along the inner circumferential cam surface of the cam ring or at an outside of the inner circumferential cam surface regardless of eccentricity of the cam ring with respect to the rotor.

Abstract: An absorbent article has a planar direction and a thickness direction. The absorbent article includes a volatile first functional component, a volatile second functional component, water-disintegrable microcapsules that contain the second functional component, and a solvent that keeps the second functional component contained inside the microcapsules. Between a liquid-permeable layer and an absorption layer, the absorbent article has functional composition coated regions that extend in the planar direction and that are coated with the functional composition, and has adhesive coated regions that extend in the planar direction and that are coated with an adhesive. The adhesive coated regions have an adhesive region that directly or indirectly joins the liquid-permeable payer and the absorption layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an absorbent article including a liquid permeable layer, a liquid impermeable layer, and an absorbent layer, includes a step for forming a functional composition by mixing water-disintegrable microcapsules containing a volatile functional component with a solvent capable of keeping the functional component as contained in the microcapsules, a step for coating the functional composition on at least a portion of a surface of a layer to be coated to form a functional composition-coated region on the surface to be coated, and a step for stacking the liquid permeable layer, and the absorbent layer and the liquid impermeable layer with an adhesive-coated region coated with an adhesive interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A vane pump includes: a rotor; vanes; a cam ring; pump chambers; a suction port; a discharge port; back-pressure chambers; a discharge-side back pressure port configured to guide working fluid that is discharged from the discharge port to the back-pressure chambers; and suction-side back pressure ports configured to guide the working fluid to the back-pressure chambers. The suction-side back pressure ports are formed to be divided into a low-pressure port and a high-pressure port, the low-pressure port being configured to guide the working fluid in the suction port to the back-pressure chambers, and the high-pressure port being configured to guide the working fluid that is discharged from the discharge port to the back-pressure chambers. The high-pressure port is arranged at the forward-side of the low-pressure port in rotating direction of the rotor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a carbonate compound and methacrylic acid or an ester thereof, containing a step (a1) of obtaining hexachloroacetone and hydrogen chloride from acetone and chlorine molecule, a step (a2) of obtaining a dialkyl carbonate and chloroform from hexachloroacetone and an alkyl alcohol, a step (b1) of obtaining 1,1,1-trichloro-2-methyl-2-propanol from chloroform and acetone, a step (b2+b3 or b4) of obtaining methacrylic acid or an ester thereof and hydrogen chloride from 1,1,1-trichloro-2-methyl-2-propanol and water or an alcohol, and a step (c1 or c2) of obtaining chlorine molecule by reacting hydrogen chloride with oxygen molecule.