Abstract: An integrated sheet structure for a secondary battery, including a first mixture layer containing a first active material and a first binder, a second mixture layer containing a second active material and a second binder, and a third mixture layer located between the first mixture layer and the second mixture layer and containing solid particles and a third binder, in which the first mixture layer and the third mixture layer are bonded each other, and the second mixture layer and the third mixture layer are bonded each other.

Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery including a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a separation layer in contact with an active material-containing layer of the negative electrode, and an aqueous electrolyte. A first concentration corresponding to a first metal concentration represented by Equation 1 (first metal concentration=atomic concentration of Hg, Pb, Zn, and/or Bi/sum of atomic concentrations of elements B to U in periodic table, excluding carbon and oxygen) in a boundary region between the active material-containing layer and the separation layer is 2% or more and 8.2% or less. A ratio of the first concentration to a second concentration corresponding to the first metal concentration represented by Equation 1 in the active material-containing layer excluding the boundary region is 2.5 or more and less than 4.

Abstract: A high-pressure hose relating to the present disclosure has, within a hose main body, four or more reinforcing layers at which linear reinforcing materials extend in spiral shapes, wherein, at two reinforcing layers that are adjacent in a hose radial direction, a pitch length of the reinforcing material at the reinforcing layer that is disposed at an outer side is shorter than a pitch length of the reinforcing material at the reinforcing layer that is disposed at an inner side.

Abstract: The apparatus for producing a single crystal is an apparatus for producing a silicon carbide single crystal including the crucible configured to house the seed crystal containing silicon carbide and the raw material for sublimation arranged opposite the seed crystal and used for growing the seed crystal. The crucible includes the crucible body configured to house the raw material for sublimation and the lid configured such that the seed crystal is arranged on the lid, and the thickness of the lid at the center area thereof corresponding to the radial center portion of the seed crystal is set to be larger than the thickness of the lid at the peripheral area thereof corresponding to a portion located radially outside the radial center portion of the seed crystal.

Abstract: A seismic isolation apparatus features damping characteristics equivalent to or better than prior art, without burdening the environment. In this seismic isolation apparatus, a cylindrical cavity portion is formed at the middle of an outer side laminated body, which has a form in which respective pluralities of resiliently deformable rubber rings and metal rings for maintaining rigidity are alternately laminated. A helically formed coil spring is disposed in this cavity portion so as to be snugly fitted. An inner side laminated body, which has a form in which respective pluralities of resiliently deformable rubber plates and metal plates for maintaining rigidity are alternately laminated, is disposed at an inner peripheral side of the coil spring.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for measuring forces acted upon a tire in which a radial force and a peripheral force acting to the tire, which are required for the high precision measurement of a friction coefficient on a road surface, are simply measured in a high precision by detecting a magnetic field formed by a magnet fixed to a tread portion of the tire by a magnetic sensor fixed to a rim and measuring the forces acting to the tire from a variant pattern of a magnetic flux density detected un the rotation of the tire and without influencing upon the balance of the tire, which contributes to the high precision measurement of the friction coefficient on the road surface.

Abstract: A seismic isolation apparatus features damping characteristics equivalent to or better than prior art, without burdening the environment. In this seismic isolation apparatus, a cylindrical cavity portion is formed at the middle of an outer side laminated body, which has a form in which respective pluralities of resiliently deformable rubber rings and metal rings for maintaining rigidity are alternately laminated. A helically formed coil spring is disposed in this cavity portion so as to be snugly fitted. An inner side laminated body, which has a form in which respective pluralities of resiliently deformable rubber plates and metal plates for maintaining rigidity are alternately laminated, is disposed at an inner peripheral side of the coil spring.

Abstract: This invention provides a condenser for a refrigerating machine which can improve the condensation characteristics by eliminating the accumulation of the condensed refrigerant in the condenser vessel. The condenser comprising the vessel 14 and a group of heat exchanger tubes 15 disposed in the vessel is used for condensing and liquefying the gaseous refrigerant by heat exchange between the gaseous refrigerant and cooling water circulating in the heat exchanger tubes. The condenser is constituted such that accumulated liquefied refrigerant is removed by forming one or a plurality of spaces in the area wherein the heat exchanger tubes are disposed.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for measuring forces acted upon a tire in which a radial force and a peripheral force acting to the tire, which are required for the high precision measurement of a friction coefficient on a road surface, are simply measured in a high precision by detecting a magnetic field formed by a magnet fixed to a tread portion of the tire by a magnetic sensor fixed to a rim and measuring the forces acting to the tire from a variant pattern of a magnetic flux density detected un the rotation of the tire and without influencing upon the balance of the tire, which contributes to the high precision measurement of the friction coefficient on the road surface.

Abstract: An evaporator is constructed such that bundles of heat exchanger tubes for flowing cold water are disposed inside a container for admitting the cooling medium. When a total cross sectional area of the heat exchanger tubes at various locations in a flow passage of the cold water is compared, the total area in a downstream location is less than a total area in an upstream location of the flow passage. Therefore, even though the temperature differential between the cold water and the cooling medium is small, the flow speeds of the cold water in the downstream tubes become faster than that in the upstream tubes, so that the heat flux is increased and heat transfer rate is improved.

Abstract: This invention provides a condenser for a refrigerating machine which can improve the condensation characteristics by eliminating the accumulation of the condensed refrigerant in the condenser vessel. The condenser comprising the vessel 14 and a group of heat exchanger tubes 15 disposed in the vessel is used for condensing and liquefying the gaseous refrigerant by heat exchange between the gaseous refrigerant and cooling water circulating in the heat exchanger tubes. The condenser is constituted such that accumulated liquefied refrigerant is removed by forming one or a plurality of spaces in the area wherein the heat exchanger tubes are disposed.

Abstract: An evaporator for a refrigerating system which prevents droplets of refrigerant from blowing upwards, and a refrigeration apparatus using thereof are provided. The evaporator for a refrigerating system includes a container into which the refrigerant is introduced, and heat exchanger tubes disposed in the container through which a cooled object flows. The evaporator further includes a prevention plate disposed above the heat exchanger tubes so that droplets of the refrigerant, which are blown upwards due to a boiling of the refrigerant, hit the prevention plate.

Abstract: The invention is aimed at making a space necessary for installing an adjusting mechanism for a diffuser small to thereby miniaturize a turbocompressor as well as a refrigerating machine where this turbocompressor is a constituent element. A compressor incorporating a diffuser 34 adopts an adjusting mechanism comprising; a diffuser ring 37 forming one wall 34a, arranged so as to be a concentric circle with the surroundings of a second stage impeller 17b and supported on a casing 25, and which can be rotated in the circumferential direction and which can be moved in an axial direction of the second stage impeller 17b, with a groove 37a formed on an outer peripheral face at an incline to the axial direction of the second stage impeller 17b; a protrusion 40 provided on the casing 25 and fitted into the groove 37a; a shaft 38 axially supported on the diffuser ring 37; and a drive section 39 for driving the shaft 38 in a lengthwise direction.

Abstract: An evaporator for a refrigerating system which prevents droplets of refrigerant from blowing upwards, and a refrigeration apparatus using thereof are provided. The evaporator for a refrigerating system includes a container into which the refrigerant is introduced, and heat exchanger tubes disposed in the container through which a cooled object flows. The evaporator further includes a prevention plate disposed above the heat exchanger tubes so that droplets of the refrigerant, which are blown upwards due to a boiling of the refrigerant, hit the prevention plate.

Abstract: In an evaporator composed by providing plural heat-transfer pipes for flowing cold water in a container into which a refrigerant is introduced, the heat-transfer pipes are divided into plural pipe groups and the pipe groups are arranged in a zigzag pattern with intervals between each adjacent pipe groups. Bubbles which are generated around the heat-transfer pipes provided lower position, easily come to the surface of the refrigerant, and further, there are few bubbles which degrade the performance of the heat-transfer pipes positioned around the center of the pipe groups, preventing a fall in the heat transfer coefficient.

Abstract: A condenser for condensing and liquifying a refrigerant by inducing the refrigerant into a receptacle (14), in which cooling water is fed through a plurality of thermal transmission pipes (15) which are arranged in bundles. A plate body (20) is provided between the bundles of the thermal transmission pipes, and slopes diagonally downwardly when viewed in cross-section from the direction of the length of the thermal transmission pipes. Consequently, the refrigerant falling toward the thermal transmission pipes at low positions is led diagonally downwardly by the plate body, so that the liquid film of refrigerant which adheres to the surfaces of the thertmal transmission pipes does not become too thick, thereby preventing reduction in the thermal transmittancy of the thermal transmission pipes.

Abstract: This evaporator (12) is constructed such that bundles of heat exchanger tubes (15) for flowing cold water are disposed inside the container (14) for admitting the cooling medium. When a total cross sectional area of the heat exchanger tubes (15) at various locations in the flow direction of the cold water is compared, the total area in a downstream location is less that a total area in an upstream location of the flow passage. Therefore, even though the temperature differential between the cold water and the cooling medium is small, the flow speeds of the cold water in the downstream tubes become faster than that in the upstream tubes, so that the heat flux is increased and heat transfer rate is improved even in tube group D.

Abstract: This invention provides a condenser for a refrigerating machine which can improve the condensation characteristics by eliminating the accumulation of the condensed refrigerant in the condenser vessel. The condenser comprising the vessel 14 and a group of heat exchanger tubes 15 disposed in the vessel is used for condensing and liquefying the gaseous refrigerant by heat exchange between the gaseous refrigerant and cooling water circulating in the heat exchanger tubes. The condenser is constituted such that accumulated liquefied refrigerant is removed by forming one or a plurality of spaces in the area wherein the heat exchanger tubes are disposed.

Abstract: The invention is aimed at making a space necessary for installing an adjusting mechanism for a diffuser small to thereby miniaturize a turbocompressor as well as a refrigerating machine where this turbocompressor is a constituent element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a condenser for condensing and liquifying a refrigerant by inducing the refrigerant into a receptacle (14), in which cooling water is fed to through a plurality of thermal transmission pipes (15) which are arranged in bundles. A plate body (20) is provided between the bundles of the thermal transmission pipes, and slopes diagonally downward when viewed in cross-section from the direction of the length of the thermal transmission pipes. Consequently, the refrigerant falling toward the thermal transmission pipes at low positions is led diagonally downward by a the plate body, so that the liquid film of refrigerant which adheres to the surfaces of the thermal transmission pipes does not become too thick, thereby preventing reduction in the thermal transmittancy of the thermal transmission pipes.