Abstract: There is provided a nickel-metal hydride storage battery with suppression of rise in internal pressure, allowing suppression of alkaline electrolyte leakage even when two or more of the batteries are used. The battery includes: positive and negative electrodes; a separator interposed therebetween; and an alkaline electrolyte. The negative electrode includes: a material mixture layer including hydrogen storage alloy powder capable of electrochemically absorbing and releasing hydrogen; and a water-repellent layer including a first polymer including tetrafluoroethylene as monomer units, formed on the material mixture layer. The separator includes: a primary layer having a non-woven fabric structure of fibers; and a composite layer formed on the primary layer and being in contact with the water-repellent layer. The composite layer includes: fibers in continuity with the non-woven fabric structure; and a second polymer including tetrafluoroethylene as monomer units.

Abstract: A touch key of an operation console includes a circuit board (310) having a light source (312, 314), a light transmitting portion (322) transmitting light, a non-transparent light shielding portion (324) and a semi-transparent operation panel (300) covering upper surfaces of the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. The light transmitting portion accommodates the light source. The surfaces of light transmitting portion and light shielding portion in contact with each other are tightly sealed, and the circuit board (310) and the light shielding portion (324) cover the light transmitting portion (322) such that the light is emitted only from the surface in contact with the operation panel (300). Thus, leakage of light from around a figure indicating a touch key can be prevented, and the operation console comes to have a high-class look.

Abstract: A vehicle transmission includes an input shaft and an input side fifth speed gear that is relatively rotatably mounted on the input shaft. Axial one end face of the fifth speed gear is so disposed as to neighbor a stepped face between a large and reduced diameter portions in the input shaft. At a root portion continued to the stepped face in an outer peripheral surface of the input shaft, an escapement is formed so as to be recessed radially outwardly. A chamfered portion is formed in an angled portion at one end on the stepped face side in the inner peripheral surface of the fifth speed gear. The axial distance (b) from one end of the fifth speed gear to a terminating end of the chamfered portion is chosen to be greater than the axial distance (a) from the stepped face to the terminating end of the escapement.

Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material for alkaline storage batteries that enables to achieve a high charging efficiency in a wide temperature range including high temperatures, and suppress self-discharge. The positive electrode active material for alkaline storage batteries includes a nickel oxide. In a powder X-ray 2?/? diffraction pattern using CuK? radiation of the nickel oxide, the ratio I001/I101 of a peak intensity I001 of (001) plane to a peak intensity I101 of (101) plane is 2 or more, and the ratio FWHM001/FWHM101 of a full width at half maximum FWHM001 of (001) plane to a full width at half maximum FWHM101 of (101) plane is 0.6 or less.

Abstract: A laser spotting device for bicycle fitting comprises a base member and a laser emitting device movably attached to the base member in a first direction. The laser emitting device is configured to emit laser beam toward a first virtual plane which is parallel to the first direction and configured to emit laser beam toward a second virtual plane which is parallel to the first direction and which differs from the first virtual plane.

Abstract: Disclosed is an alloy powder for electrodes for nickel-metal hydride storage batteries having a high battery capacity and being excellent in life characteristics and high-temperature storage characteristics. The alloy powder includes a hydrogen storage alloy containing elements L, M, Ni, Co, and E. L includes La as an essential component. L includes no Nd, or when including Nd, the percentage of Nd in L is less than 5 mass %. The percentage of La in the hydrogen storage alloy is 23 mass % or less. M is Mg, Ca, Sr and/or Ba. A molar ratio ? to a total of L and M is 0.045???0.133. A molar ratio x of Ni to the total of L and M is 3.5?x?4.32, and a molar ratio y of Co is 0.13?y?0.5. The molar ratios x and y, and a molar ratio z of E to the total of L and M satisfy 4.78?x+y+z<5.03.

Abstract: A laser spotting device for bicycle fitting comprises a base member and a laser emitting device movably attached to the base member in a first direction. The laser emitting device is configured to emit laser beam toward a first virtual plane which is parallel to the first direction and configured to emit laser beam toward a second virtual plane which is parallel to the first direction and which differs from the first virtual plane.

Abstract: Provided is an alloy powder for an electrode which enables an alkaline storage battery to have both excellent discharge characteristics and excellent life characteristics. The alloy powder includes a hydrogen storage alloy including an element L, Mg, Ni, Al, and an element Ma. The element L is at least one selected from the group consisting of group 3 elements and group 4 elements of the periodic table (excluding Y). The element Ma is at least two selected from the group consisting of Ge, Y, and Sn. A molar proportion x of Mg in a total of the element L and Mg is 0.008?x?0.54. A molar proportion y of Ni, a molar proportion ? of Al, and a molar proportion ? of the element Ma, per the foregoing total is 1.6?y?4, 0.008???0.32, and 0.01???0.12, respectively.

Abstract: A resolver excitation apparatus that adjusts amplitude of a sinusoidal excitation source signal to generate an excitation signal having predetermined amplitude in order to excite an exciting winding of a resolver. A parallel resonant circuit having a parallel resonant element that functions as parallel resonant impedance for impedance of the excitation winding. A series resonant circuit having a series resonant element that functions as series resonant impedance for the impedance of the excitation winding.

Abstract: An opening and closing device includes a cover gear, a driving source, a cover, a biasing element, and a control portion. The cover gear is rotatably supported in both forward and backward directions. The driving source selectively provides rotation to the cover gear in both the forward and backward directions. The cover is rotatably supported to allow motion in both the forward and backward directions between first and second positions. The biasing element transmits the rotation of the cover gear to the cover while biasing the cover in a predetermined direction from the first position to the second position. The control portion stops the rotation of the driving source, in a case in which the driving source is rotated to move the cover in the predetermined direction, when the cover gear rotates in the predetermined direction by a predetermined angle after the cover has reached the second position.

Abstract: Provided is a method and reagent for measuring cystatin C in a human body fluid, by contacting a human body fluid with (a) first insoluble carrier particles coated with a first anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody and (b) second insoluble carrier particles coated with a second anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody, where the first anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody has an affinity for cystatin C that is higher than the second anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody, the second anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody recognizes an epitope of cystatin C that is different from the epitope recognized by the first anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody, and the first and second insoluble carrier particles are coated with from 1% to less than 4% by weight of the anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibodies.

Abstract: Provided is a method for the simple and highly accurate assay of PSA by a one-step reaction that does not use carriers having different average grain sizes. Also provided is a reagent therefor. The PSA assay method comprises sensitizing insoluble carriers having the same average grain size within a range of greater than 0.20 ?m but 0.40 ?m or less using two types of anti-PSA monoclonal antibodies having different epitopes that are anti-PSA monoclonal antibodies that will react with both free PSA and PSA-ACT, which is a complex of free PSA and ?1-antichymotrypsin, and bringing the carriers into contact with a sample in the presence of an aggregation promoter.

Abstract: An operating device includes a first support frame, a support shaft, an operating panel, a second support frame, and a spring. The first support frame is fixed to a front side of a main apparatus. The support shaft projects from the first support frame in a widthwise direction of the main apparatus. The second support frame is pivotally supported on the support shaft in such a manner as to be displaceable within a predetermined range in the widthwise direction while supporting the operating panel. The spring biases the second support frame in a first direction which the second support frame is pressed against the first support frame. The first support frame has a plurality of recesses on a circumference of a circle that is concentric with the support shaft. The second support frame has a first projection capable of being engaged into any one of the recesses.

Abstract: An exterior structure of an apparatus for covering the outside of an apparatus main body with a multiple number of panel elements uses shielding panels, heat-radiating panels and machine-interior anti-scatter panels as the multiple number of panel elements. The apparatus has a framework to which shielding panels, heat-radiating panels and machine-interior anti-scatter panels are appropriately arranged in combination to cover the apparatus in conformity with the functional configuration of the apparatus.

Abstract: An electric vehicle inverter device, the device comprising an inverter and a smoothing capacitor which are connected in parallel with a high voltage power supply. A fast discharge resistor and a discharge switch element are connected in parallel with the smoothing capacitor, and a control device controls the discharge switch element. The control device duty controls switching of the discharge switch element so that, in response to a fast discharge command, a duty ratio increases with a decrease in a voltage at both ends of the smoothing capacitor.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in one embodiment of the present invention is an image forming apparatus that includes a main body that performs processing to form an image on a recording paper, the image forming apparatus including, an ion generating section that is external to the main body, generates ions and emits those ions to the outside.

Abstract: An inverter drive power supply circuit for driving a plurality of inverter switching devices that form an inverter circuit, includes a number N of transformers (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) adapted to a push-pull method, each having a first winding and a second winding for a primary winding and a first winding and a second winding for a secondary winding, and supplying an output voltage of the secondary winding to the inverter switching devices.

Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide an antibody specific to human insulin and an assay and an assay reagent using the antibody capable of accurately assaying human insulin without being affected by porcine insulin. The present invention provides an assay and an assay reagent capable of specifically assaying human insulin by combining a monoclonal antibody specifically reactive with human insulin and nonreactive with porcine insulin and a different anti-human insulin antibody.

Abstract: A glass substrate processing method includes irradiating laser light L onto a glass substrate 1 such that the laser light L is focused within the glass substrate 1, thereby forming a high density area 3 that has a higher density than areas where the laser light L is not irradiated around the portion where the laser light L is focused; and performing chemical etching on the glass substrate 1 using an etching solution such that at least a portion of the high density area is allowed to remain, thereby forming a projection 2 on a surface 1a of the glass substrate 1.

Abstract: A discharge control circuit that allows an electric charge accumulated in a smoothing capacitor, which is interposed between a main power source that supplies DC power to an electric circuit and the electric circuit, to be discharged when connection between the main power source and the electric circuit is interrupted, includes a series resistor section formed by connecting a first resistor and a second resistor in series with each other and connected in parallel with the smoothing capacitor; and a switch connected in parallel with the first resistor, controlled to a non-conductive state when connection between the main power source and the electric circuit is maintained, and controlled to a conductive state to short-circuit both ends of the first resistor when connection between the main power source and the electric circuit is interrupted.