Abstract: An antenna device, for a mobile body, of this disclosure includes an antenna configured to be installed in the mobile body, and a reflector having a reflection surface configured to change a beam direction of the antenna.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for collecting flux are disclosed. A rosin particle contained in an atmosphere gas, and a vapor of a solvent or an atomized solvent particle are mixed in a mixing section upstream of a flux collection unit-side inlet, and a gas containing a mixed particle is cleaned by electrostatic precipitation. The solvent particle adheres to the rosin particle, and forms an aggregate of larger particle size.

Abstract: A product removing method of introducing an atmospheric gas into a product remover including a corona discharge space to remove a product from the atmospheric gas, the product being generated inside a processing chamber under a low oxygen atmosphere, the method including: mixing the atmospheric gas with a high electric resistance gas to generate a mixed gas in a pipe or the corona discharge space, the pipe being connected between the processing chamber and the corona discharge space, the atmospheric gas being discharged from the processing chamber via the pipe, the high electric resistance gas having an electric resistance higher than an electric resistance of the atmospheric gas; and removing the product from the mixed gas by a corona discharge method in the corona discharge space into which the mixed gas is introduced via the pipe or in which the mixed gas is generated.

Abstract: A reflow furnace that can reduce both the flux clinging defect in a circuit board, and the thermal cracking defect in an electronic component has a heat zone in which a circuit board with a mounted electronic component is heated, and a cooling zone in which the heated circuit board is cooled, and includes: a shield disposed between the heat zone and the cooling zone and having an opening for passage of the circuit board; and a tunnel-like cover physically coupled to the opening and extending along a transport direction of the circuit board.

Abstract: A reflow furnace that can reduce both the flux clinging defect in a circuit board, and the thermal cracking defect in an electronic component has a heat zone in which a circuit board with a mounted electronic component is heated, and a cooling zone in which the heated circuit board is cooled, and includes: a shield disposed between the heat zone and the cooling zone and having an opening for passage of the circuit board; and a tunnel-like cover physically coupled to the opening and extending along a transport direction of the circuit board.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for collecting flux in a way that improves the cleanliness inside a furnace by improving flux collection efficiency, reduces flux viscosity to maintain a liquid state even at ordinary temperature, and makes the flux collection unit more easily serviceable includes a rosin particle contained in an atmosphere gas, and vapor of a solvent or an atomized solvent particle are mixed in a mixing section provided upstream of a flux collection unit-side inlet, and a gas containing a mixed particle is cleaned by means of electrostatic precipitation. The solvent particle adheres to the rosin particle, and forms an aggregate of large particle size that can be more easily charged by corona discharge. This improves the flux collection rate of electrostatic precipitation collection, and, because the rosin particle dissolves in the solvent particle, the collected flux can have reduced viscosity.

Abstract: Provided is a solvent separation method and a solvent separation apparatus that make it possible to efficiently retrieve the thermal energy possessed by an exhaust atmosphere released in a solvent-removal step to suppress reductions in a temperature of the exhaust atmosphere. In the solvent separation method and the solvent separation apparatus, a vaporized solvent is removed from a gas while heat exchange between the gas within a condensation part and the gas within a dust-collection part is conducted by using a heat exchange part that is placed between the condensation part that introduces the gas into a first direction and the dust-collection part that introduce the gas into a second direction opposite to the first direction the gas discharged from a downstream side of the condensation part.

Abstract: Provided are a solvent separation method, a solvent separation apparatus, and a solvent separation system that make it possible to easily collect a solvent removed from an exhaust atmosphere and that make it possible to easily carry out maintenance of exhaust gas pathways. An impeller placed in a storage space of a casing is rotated to introduce a gas including a volatilized solvent from an inlet of the casing into the storage space, and the volatilized solvent is cooled and devolatilized by a collection face that has been cooled so as to have a surface temperature lower than the temperature of the gas, to thereby separate the solvent from the gas.

Abstract: An endoscope having an insertion portion to be inserted into an object to be observed, includes: a substantially tubular holder member mounted to the insertion portion and having an open front end portion including a shoulder surface surrounded by an axial wall; a lens barrel holding an objective lens system and received in the holder member; and a light-transmissive closure member fitted into a front opening defined by the axial wall, and fixed to the front opening by a bonding agent interposed between an outer circumferential surface of the closure member and an opposing inner circumferential surface of the open front end portion of the holder member, wherein a space axially adjoining the shoulder surface is defined between an outer circumferential surface of a front end portion of the lens barrel and an opposing inner circumferential surface of the holder member.

Abstract: Provided is a solvent separation method and a solvent separation apparatus that make it possible to efficiently retrieve the thermal energy possessed by an exhaust atmosphere released in a solvent-removal step to suppress reductions in a temperature of the exhaust atmosphere. In the solvent separation method and the solvent separation apparatus, a vaporized solvent is removed from a gas while heat-exchange between the gas within a condensation part and the gas within a dust-collection part is conducted by using a heat exchange part that is placed between the condensation part that introduces the gas into a first direction and the dust-collection part that introduce the gas into a second direction opposite to the first direction the gas discharged from a downstream side of the condensation part.

Abstract: Provided are a solvent separation method, a solvent separation apparatus, and a solvent separation system that make it possible to easily collect a solvent removed from an exhaust atmosphere and that sake it possible to easily carry out maintenance of exhaust gas pathways. An impeller placed in a storage space of a casing is rotated to introduce a gas including a volatilized solvent from an inlet of the casing into the storage space, and the volatilized solvent is cooled and devolatilized by a collection face that has been cooled so as to have a surface temperature lower than the temperature of the gas, to thereby separate the solvent from the gas.

Abstract: An endoscope having an insertion portion to be inserted into an object to be observed, includes: a substantially tubular holder member mounted to the insertion portion and having an open front end portion including a shoulder surface surrounded by an axial wall; a lens barrel holding an objective lens system and received in the holder member; and a light-transmissive closure member fitted into a front opening defined by the axial wall, and fixed to the front opening by a bonding agent interposed between an outer circumferential surface of the closure member and an opposing inner circumferential surface of the open front end portion of the holder member, wherein a space axially adjoining the shoulder surface is defined between an outer circumferential surface of a front end portion of the lens barrel and an opposing inner circumferential surface of the holder member.

Abstract: An image sensor comprises, a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric converters mounted on the substrate, for each of which a photoelectric conversion layer is formed of an organic compound layer and is sandwiched between an anode and a cathode so as to perform photoelectric conversion based on incident light, drive circuits for detecting output provided by a signal current generated by the photoelectric converters and for reading signal charges, and a wiring for electrically connecting the photoelectric converters and the drive circuits, wherein, for the plurality of the photoelectric converters that form one read pixels, the size of a photoelectric conversion area differs in accordance with a sensitivity of each of the plurality of photoelectric converters.

Abstract: A window glass antenna system includes a defogging heater pattern disposed on a window glass pane and being operable also as an AM broadcast receiver antenna, an impedance matching circuit having two inductors for respectively causing series resonance and parallel resonance of AM broadcast signals fed from an output of the heater pattern and being designed to supply the AM broadcast signals to an associated radio receiver, and at least one capacitor disposed between the heater pattern output and the impedance matching circuit for blocking induced noises of AM frequency band. With this arrangement, it becomes possible to significantly attenuate noises of AM frequency band to be induced into the heater pattern, without attenuating received signals of AM broadcast, whereby AM broadcast radio reception of good S/N ratio is enabled.