Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat that allows detection of forgetting to mount a bracket for centering in a recliner with a limited space along a seat-width direction. One aspect of the present disclosure is a vehicle seat including a recliner mounted to a back frame. The recliner includes a recliner plate, a recliner main body configured to pivot the back frame relative to the recliner plate, a bracket fixed to the recliner plate, and a hinge pin penetrating the recliner main body, the recliner plate, and the bracket. The recliner plate includes a confirmation hole not overlapping the recliner main body. The bracket includes a body portion having a first through hole, and a detection target portion extending from the body portion to the confirmation hole and overlapping the confirmation hole.

Abstract: A fluid-filled vibration damping device includes a switching valve arranged inside the fluid passage passing through a partition member to communicate with a main fluid chamber and a sub fluid chamber and protruding from one wall surface toward the other wall surface of the fluid passage that face each other. A gap is provided between the switching valve and the other wall surface. A tip end part of the switching valve abuts against the other wall surface through a tilt displacement in a swing manner of the switching valve in the passage length direction of the fluid passage to thereby form a switching mechanism for closing the gap. An elastically deformable fin-shaped protrusion protruding from the tip end part of the switching valve toward the other wall surface is provided. A leak passage is formed between a protruding tip end of the fin-shaped protrusion and the other wall surface.

Abstract: The invention is directed to manufacturing a divided board without wasting an electronic component by judging whether or not a shortage of electronic components of a given type to be mounted on divided board portions will occur during the mounting before mounting electronic components on the divided board. A printed board having three board portions is carried onto an XY table from a supply conveyer and positioned by positioning means. Then, for each of component feeding units, a CPU judges whether or not the number of remaining electronic components is smaller than the number of necessary electronic components for manufacturing all the divided board portions. When the number is judged smaller, for example, when the number of remaining electronic components of Fdr. No. “102” is judged to be two that is less than three, the CPU calculates that the number of manufacturable divided board portions is two.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a method of treating diseases caused by the accumulation of body fat, comprising the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of punicic acid or its ester to a mammal or fish.

Abstract: An engine mount has: a mount body including an upper and lower fitting of plate shape, and a pair of rubber mount elements of block shape; and an inner tube fitting situated within a through-hole in the upper fitting, formed at a location between the pair of rubber mount elements, and a vibration damping bushing integrally vulcanization bonded with the inner tube fitting and the upper fitting, and connecting the inner and upper fittings in the diametrical direction. The pair of rubber mount elements and the bushing rubber are integrally vulcanization molded. A stopper fitting is affixed within the inner tube fitting, with a vehicle front-back direction fitting stopper portion and/or a left-right direction fitting stopper portion being disposed on the stopper fitting, and a corresponding rubber stopper portion is disposed on the upper fitting side, with the fitting stopper portion and the rubber stopper portion being placed abutting one another.

Abstract: An engine mount has: a mount body including an upper and lower fitting of plate shape, and a pair of rubber mount elements of block shape; and an inner tube fitting situated within a through-hole in the upper fitting, formed at a location between the pair of rubber mount elements, and a vibration damping bushing integrally vulcanization bonded with the inner tube fitting and the upper fitting, and connecting the inner and upper fittings in the diametrical direction. The pair of rubber mount elements and the bushing rubber are integrally vulcanization molded. A stopper fitting is affixed within the inner tube fitting, with a vehicle front-back direction fitting stopper portion and/or a left-right direction fitting stopper portion being disposed on the stopper fitting, and a corresponding rubber stopper portion is disposed on the upper fitting side, with the fitting stopper portion and the rubber stopper portion being placed abutting one another.

Abstract: The impurity analyzing method is for analyzing impurities that exist on a surface of a semiconductor wafer, which includes a step of bubbling a mixed solution including hydrofluoric acid and aqueous hydrogen peroxide or a mixed solution including hydrofluoric acid and aqueous ozone to generate a vapor including hydrofluoric acid and aqueous hydrogen peroxide or a vapor including hydrofluoric acid and aqueous ozone, a step of dissolving a film formed on the surface of the semiconductor wafer by means of the vapor including hydrofluoric acid and aqueous hydrogen peroxide or the vapor including hydrofluoric acid and aqueous ozone, a step of supplying liquid drops onto the surface of the semiconductor wafer and collecting the impurities along with the liquid drops, and a step of analyzing the collected impurities.

Abstract: A sleeper timer for the source equipment of audio/visual apparatuses such as a cassette tape deck, CD player, AM/FM tuner, and video disk play incorporates an auto sleep mode where the source equipment are turned off as soon as the source equipment completes its operation, and a conventional sleep timer mode where the source equipment are turned off when a predetermined length of time of a timer expires.

Abstract: Two tape decks are connected to a player that plays back a recording medium. The reproduced sound is recorded on two magnetic tapes by the tape decks operating in parallel. During the recording, one of the decks stops earlier than the other because of difference in tape length and issues a tape-end signal. In response to the tape-end signal, the player is controlled to search for and reach the last recorded piece of music while the tape decks are rewound, paused or otherwise controlled singly or in combination in a suitable time sequence. This makes it possible to edit the tapes of different lengths during continuous recording without leaving blank periods on either tape.