Abstract: The present invention is an information management apparatus, capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles, the apparatus comprising a receiving unit for receiving information indicating an occurrence of a failure in one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, from the one vehicle, and a transmission unit for transmitting information based on the failure to the other vehicles of the plurality of vehicles, thereby, a recurrence of a similar failure in a predetermined region can be appropriately prevented.

Abstract: The present invention provides a server apparatus communicably connected to a vehicle and a plurality of information terminals, comprising: a reception unit configured to receive abnormality detection information from the vehicle; a selection unit configured to select, if the reception unit receives the abnormality detection information, among the plurality of information terminals, the information terminal existing within a predetermined range from the vehicle as a target terminal to which the abnormality notification information of the vehicle is to be transmitted; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the abnormality notification information to the information terminal selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: The present invention is an information management apparatus, capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles, the apparatus comprising a receiving unit for receiving information indicating an occurrence of a failure in one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, from the one vehicle, and a transmission unit for transmitting information based on the failure to the other vehicles of the plurality of vehicles, thereby, a recurrence of a similar failure in a predetermined region can be appropriately prevented.

Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a pair of spiral plate bodies between which a compression chamber that compresses refrigerant is formed; a support configured to support one of the spiral plate bodies; a plurality of refrigerant paths extending through the support so as to provide communication between the compression chamber and an outside of the scroll compressor; and a plurality of check valves each of which is provided in the support for a corresponding one of the refrigerant paths, wherein each of the plurality of check valves includes a valve element and a valve chamber in which the valve element is accommodated, and at least one of the check valves is placed at a position away from a rest of the check valves in a rotation axis direction of the scroll compressor such that the valve chambers of the check valves do not interfere with each other.

Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a pair of spiral plate bodies between which a compression chamber that compresses refrigerant is formed; a support configured to support one of the spiral plate bodies; a plurality of refrigerant paths extending through the support so as to provide communication between the compression chamber and an outside of the scroll compressor; and a plurality of check valves each of which is provided in the support for a corresponding one of the refrigerant paths, wherein each of the plurality of check valves includes a valve element and a valve chamber in which the valve element is accommodated, and at least one of the check valves is placed at a position away from a rest of the check valves in a rotation axis direction of the scroll compressor such that the valve chambers of the check valves do not interfere with each other.

Abstract: Disclosed is a metal-metal oxide composite material for dental prosthesis, which has a white surface with good aesthetic quality and includes a titanium or titanium alloy substrate; and an oxidation layer present on a surface of the substrate. The metal-metal oxide composite material is manufactured by subjecting the substrate to a heat treatment at a temperature of around 1000° C. in an oxygen-containing atmosphere to form the oxidation layer on the surface of the substrate with good adhesion.

Abstract: A strainer provided in a refrigerant piping of an air conditioning device through which refrigerant flows includes a cylindrical shell disposed in the refrigerant piping, a cage type filter which includes an opening at one end and a bottom at the other end facing with each other relative to the flowing direction of the refrigerant and a meshed circumferential portion for allowing the refrigerant to pass through, but preventing sludge to pass through an annular passage provided between an outer circumferential portion of the filter and an inner circumferential portion of the cylindrical shell for the refrigerant to flow through and a leading pipe inserted into the refrigerant piping for letting the refrigerant and sludge and having an opening disposed in the cylindrical shell adjacent and opposing to the bottom of the filter and an inner circumferential wall along which sludge flows.

Abstract: A strainer provided in a refrigerant piping of an air condoning device through which refrigerant flows includes a cylindrical shell disposed in the refrigerant piping, a cage type filter which includes an opening at one end and a bottom at the other end facing with each other relative to the flowing direction of the refrigerant and a meshed circumferential portion for allowing the refrigerant to pass through, but preventing sludge to pass through an annular passage provided between an outer circumferential portion of the filter and an inner circumferential portion of the cylindrical shell for the refrigerant to flow through and a leading pipe inserted into the refrigerant piping for letting the refrigerant and sludge and having an opening disposed in the cylindrical shell adjacent and opposing to the bottom of the filter and an inner circumferential wall along which sludge flows.

Abstract: A vertical power unit includes an input shaft and an output shaft which have axes in the vertical direction and are vertically arranged to each other; and a torque converter between the input shaft and the output shaft. The output shaft includes an upper output shaft connected to a turbine runner and a lower output shaft connected to the upper output shaft. An oil tank and an oil pump are provided outside the torque converter. The upper output shaft is provided with a vertical hole which communicates at an upper end with a circulation circuit of the torque converter so as to introduce the oil discharged by the oil pump into the circulation circuit, and a bottom wall which closes a lower end of the vertical hole. Thus, an working oil is constantly supplied to the circulation circuit of the torque converter through the interior of the output shaft, thereby cooling the working oil in the circulation circuit, and improves maintainability of loading devices driven by the output shaft.

Abstract: A vertical power unit includes an input shaft and an output shaft which have axes in the vertical direction and are vertically arranged to each other; and a torque converter between the input shaft and the output shaft. The output shaft includes an upper output shaft connected to a turbine runner and a lower output shaft connected to the upper output shaft. An oil tank and an oil pump are provided outside the torque converter. The upper output shaft is provided with a vertical hole which communicates at an upper end with a circulation circuit of the torque converter so as to introduce the oil discharged by the oil pump into the circulation circuit, and a bottom wall which closes a lower end of the vertical hole. Thus, an working oil is constantly supplied to the circulation circuit of the torque converter through the interior of the output shaft, thereby cooling the working oil in the circulation circuit, and improves maintainability of loading devices driven by the output shaft.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing tagatose crystals from an aqueous system using no organic solvent. In this method, seed crystals of tagatose are added to a tagatose solution in which a tagatose purity of solid contents in the solution is at least 70% and a solid contents concentration in the solution is 60 to 98 mass %, and crystallization of tagatose is carried out by stirring and cooling the solution while keeping a degree of super saturation of tagatose at 1.25 or lower. It is preferred that the solution containing tagatose is a solution containing no organic solvent. It is further preferred that a part of massecuite for which the crystallization is completed is added to a mother liquor so as to produce the tagatose crystals semi-continuously or continuously. It is furthermore preferred that the tagatose crystals formed from the massecuite are separated by centrifugation or filtration and dried to obtain tagatose crystals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing tagatose crystals from an aqueous system using no organic solvent. In this method, seed crystals of tagatose are added to a tagatose solution in which a tagatose purity of solid contents in the solution is at least 70% and a solid contents concentration in the solution is 60 to 98 mass %, and crystallization of tagatose is carried out by stirring and cooling the solution while keeping a degree of super saturation of tagatose at 1.25 or lower. It is preferred that the solution containing tagatose is a solution containing no organic solvent. It is further preferred that a part of massecuite for which the crystallization is completed is added to a mother liquor so as to produce the tagatose crystals semi-continuously or continuously. It is furthermore preferred that the tagatose crystals formed from the massecuite are separated by centrifugation or filtration and dried to obtain tagatose crystals.

Abstract: CGTase enzymatically acts on starch, dextrin, amylopectin, and amylose to produce primarily ?-CD, with quantities of ?- and ?-CD produced being smaller than the quantity of ?-CD produced, has an optimum pH of 10.5-11.0, an optimum temperature of about 60° C., a stable pH of 6-11, and temperature stability, exhibits residual activity of not less than 90 percent with a 15 minute-treatment at 50° C., is produced by culturing a Bacillus clarkii (for example, FERM B-7156), reacts with starch or the like to produce principally ?-cyclodextrin.

Abstract: In a marine gas cylinder apparatus provided with a switching valve apparatus capable of switching a communication state among a piston rod side oil chamber, a piston side oil chamber and a gas chamber, the switching valve apparatus is structured such that each of respective poppet valves are arranged in each of ports open to a communication chamber provided in a valve case, each of balls is held between a ball operation surface of a rotation plate supported to the valve case and each of the poppet valves. Each of the poppet valves is moved close to or apart from the corresponding port via each of the balls in accordance with a rotating operation of the rotation plate.

Abstract: In a marine gas cylinder apparatus provided with a switching valve apparatus capable of switching a communication state among a piston rod side oil chamber, a piston side oil chamber and a gas chamber, an open timing of a poppet valve provided in a communication passage communicated with a gas chamber is made antecedent to an open timing of poppet valves provided in the other communication passages when opening the switching valve apparatus.

Abstract: In a marine gas cylinder apparatus provided with a switching valve apparatus capable of switching a communication state among a piston rod side oil chamber, a piston side oil chamber and a gas chamber, the switching valve apparatus is structured such that each of respective poppet valves are arranged in each of ports open to a communication chamber provided in a valve case, each of balls is held between a ball operation surface of a rotation plate supported to the valve case and each of the poppet valves. Each of the poppet valves is moved close to or apart from the corresponding port via each of the balls in accordance with a rotating operation of the rotation plate.

Abstract: In a marine gas cylinder apparatus provided with a switching valve apparatus capable of switching a communication state among a piston rod side oil chamber, a piston side oil chamber and a gas chamber, an open timing of a poppet valve provided in a communication passage communicated with a gas chamber is made antecedent to an open timing of poppet valves provided in the other communication passages when opening the switching valve apparatus.

Abstract: CGTase having the following enzymatic chemical properties: (1) Function and substrate specificity: funtioning on starch, dextrin, amylopectin, and amylose to produce primarily &ggr;-CD, with the quantities of &bgr;- and &agr;-CD produced being smaller than the quantity of &ggr;-CD produced; (2) Optimum pH: 10.5-11.0; (3) Optimum temperature: About 60° C.; (4) Stable pH: 6-11; and (5) Temperature stability: With a 15 minute-treatment at 50° C., residual activity of not less than 90 percent is exhibited. A method of manufacturing cyclodextrin glucanotransferase in which a microorganism belonging to the species Bacillus clarkii (for example, FERM BP-7156) and having the ability to produce cyclodextrin glucanotransferase is cultured, cyclodextrin glucanotransferase is produced in the cultured product, and the cyclodextrin glucanotransferase that has been produced is collected.

Abstract: In a hydraulic circuit of a tilt device for a marine propulsion unit provided with a tilt cylinder device and a trim cylinder device, a throttle is provided in a communication passage connecting a first chamber of the trim cylinder device to a tank.

Abstract: A circuit board packaging structure comprises a plurality of circuit boards disposed in parallel to each other and each packaged with electric circuit parts. The circuit board packaged with electric circuit parts exhibiting a larger exothermic quantity than those of the electric circuit parts packaged on the other circuit boards is disposed outermost among the plurality of circuit boards. The surface of the circuit board packed with the electric circuit parts exhibiting the larger exothermic quantity is directed outside the structure.