Abstract: A coating system capable of quickly providing a vehicle coated in color requested by a user. The coating system includes: an input section that receives input of a requested coating color and starting and ending dates of using the vehicle in the requested coating color; a determination section that determines, based on the input requested coating color, whether a plurality of coating colors is requested for the same vehicle; and an instruction section that instructs coating, for a case of a plurality of coating colors not requested, by selecting the corresponding easily strippable coating material, and for a case of a plurality of coating colors requested, by calculating, based on the input starting and ending dates, use order of the vehicle coated in each of the requested coating colors and sequentially selecting the corresponding easily strippable coating materials in the order opposite to the calculated use order.

Abstract: A rotary atomizing head enables cleaning by decomposing from the atomizing head, and enables internal cleaning without decomposing to individual components when paint is changed to a new one of another color. A structural component has a front wall acting as a hub, side wall extending rearward from an outer circumferential perimeter of the front wall to make a circumferentially continuous plane, legs each having a pawl and a bottom wall. The structural component is detachably mounted in a central concavity of an atomizing head body. A bottom wall of the structural component has formed a spoon-cut recess. The central concavity has an inclined circumferential wall, and the side wall of the structural component has an inclined outer circumferential surface complementary with the circumferential wall of the atomizing head body to get in substantial contact with the circumferential wall throughout the entire area of the outer circumferential wall.

Abstract: In the light of the disadvantages of the prior art technology, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a synthetic quartz glass member for excimer lasers, which comprises, while suppressing the generation of reductive defects which impairs the resistance against laser radiations, incorporating a sufficient amount of hydrogen molecules capable of achieving a high resistance against laser radiation into the quartz glass, yet uniformly incorporating the hydrogen molecules to realize a flat distribution in refractive indices attributed to the distribution in the density of hydrogen molecules. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a synthetic quartz glass member for excimer lasers obtained by the production method above, which yields high resistance against laser radiations and homogeneity.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a synthetic quartz glass optical material having a high optical transmittance for a radiation 157 nm in wavelength emitted from F2 excimer laser and a high resistance against irradiation of a F2 excimer laser radiation, yet having a uniformity suitable for such a fine patterning using a F2 excimer laser, and to provide an optical member using the same. The problems above are solved by a synthetic quartz glass optical material for F2 excimer lasers having an OH group concentration of 0.5 ppm or lower, a fluorine concentration of 0.1 to 2 mol %, a hydrogen molecule concentration of 5×1016 molecules/cm3 or lower, a difference between the maximum and minimum fluorine concentrations within 20 mol ppm, and a difference between the maximum and minimum refraction indices of 2×10−5 or lower.

Abstract: In the light of the disadvantages of the prior art technology, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a synthetic quartz glass member for excimer lasers, which comprises, while suppressing the generation of reductive defects which impairs the resistance against laser radiations, incorporating a sufficient amount of hydrogen molecules capable of achieving a high resistance against laser radiation into the quartz glass, yet uniformly incorporating the hydrogen molecules to realize a flat distribution in refractive indices attributed to the distribution in the density of hydrogen molecules. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a synthetic quartz glass member for excimer lasers obtained by the production method above, which yields high resistance against laser radiations and homogeneity.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical quartz glass for use in excimer lasers, comprising a step of forming a porous silica preform by depositing silica in a soot-like form formed by flame hydrolysis of a high-purity volatile silicon compound, followed by a step of vitrifying said porous silica preform into transparent glass in an atmosphere containing water vapor and hydrogen, and a vertical type heating furnace for carrying out the production method therein.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a synthetic quartz glass optical material having a high optical transmittance for a radiation 157 nm in wavelength emitted from F2 excimer laser and a high resistance against irradiation of a F2 excimer laser radiation, yet having a uniformity suitable for such a fine patterning using a F2 excimer laser, and to provide an optical member using the same.

Abstract: In an inner-cam system fuel injection pump, two balance ports that are offset symmetrically relative to a distribution port in a circumferential direction to form a Y-shape are formed at a rotor. The opening ends of the balance ports and the opening end of the distribution port are positioned on the same plane that is perpendicular to the axis of the rotor. The offset angle .theta. by which the balance ports are offset in the circumferential direction relative to the axis of the distribution port, the opening area S.sub.1 of the distribution port and the opening area S.sub.2 of each of the balance ports are set to satisfy a relationship expressed as S.sub.1 =.vertline.2.multidot.S.sub.2 .multidot.cos .theta..vertline.. The phase intervals of the fuel delivery passages and the phase interval of the two balance ports are set equal to each other.

Abstract: In a solenoid valve, a gap is formed between a solenoid, which includes a stator housed within a resin mold, and a retainer that secures the solenoid on a housing. The gap communicates with a armature chamber that houses the armature mounted on a front end of a plug valve. High-pressure fuel is charged from the fluid passage into the armature chamber and flows into the gap around the solenoid to apply even pressure to the periphery of the resin mold as well as to the intake end surface of the solenoid. This prevents deformation of the resin mold and, consequently, distortion of the intake end surface. Such distortion can also be prevented by internally fitting a protective plate made of a non magnetic body in the opening ends of the coil grooves formed in the intake end surface of the stator.

Abstract: Polyvinyl chloride is prepared by suspension polymerization of a monomeric charge of vinyl chloride dispersed and suspended in an aqueous medium while agitating the suspension. An oil-soluble partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol is added to the monomeric charge as a dispersant at the start of polymerization. A water-soluble partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol and/or a hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose is continuously added as a suspending agent from the start of polymerization. The suspending agent is entirely added while the polymerization rate is in the range of 5-50%. The agitating power applied to the aqueous suspension is 50-110 kg.multidot.m/s.multidot.ton while the suspending agent is being added, and increased above 110 kg.multidot.m/s.multidot.ton after the completion of addition. The resulting polymer has a high bulk density and a sharp particle size distribution and is susceptible to extrusion.

Abstract: A prestroke control device for a fuel injection pump includes at least one control sleeve slidably fitted on at least one plunger, a control rod engaging the control sleeve, the control rod extending perpendicularly to the plunger and rotatable about an axis thereof for varying an axial position of the control sleeve relative to the plunger to thereby control the prestroke of the plunger, and an actuator for rotatively driving the control rod about its own axis. A counterweight is movable in unison with rotation of the control rod for cancelling a rotating force generated by axial movement of the control sleeve and acting upon the control rod.