Abstract: A resin composition for molding includes an epoxy resin, a curing agent, and an inorganic filler containing at least one selected from the group consisting of calcium titanate particles and strontium titanate particles, in which a total content of the calcium titanate particles and the strontium titanate particles is 30% by volume or more and less than 60% by volume with respect to the entire inorganic filler.

Abstract: Provided is an organic EL device having high efficiency and high driving stability while being driven at a low voltage. The organic electroluminescent device includes one or more light-emitting layers between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other. At least one of the light-emitting layers contains a host material and a light-emitting dopant, and (i) a first host formed of an indolocarbazole compound having one or two indolocarbazole rings, and (ii) a second host formed of a carbazole compound having a plurality of carbazole rings and having a bond structure represented by the following general formula (3) are used as the host material.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes: a magnetic member configured to cause a large Barkhausen effect; a power generation coil disposed so as to be wound around the magnetic member; and soft magnetic members formed at both end portions of the magnetic member so as to be in contact with the magnetic member and so as to press the magnetic member. Consequently, evenness of a magnetic flux density inside the magnetic member is increased, and the large Barkhausen effect is stably caused, whereby a highly stable power generation element is obtained.

Abstract: A toroidal continuously variable transmission including a power roller; a support supporting the power roller rotatably; a thrust bearing receiving a load of the power roller in a direction along a rotating axis; and an oil passage supplying lubricating oil to the thrust bearing. A surface of the power roller opposing the support includes a first bearing grooved and the support opposing the power roller includes a second bearing groove. A virtual axis of a discharge port in the oil passage reaches a bearing groove that is one of the first bearing groove and the second bearing groove. Viewed from a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, a portion of a retainer located at a radially inner side of a retaining hole of the retainer and a portion located at a radially inner side of the bearing groove are located at sides opposite to each other across the virtual axis.

Abstract: A travel support system includes a server configured to support the travel of a vehicle. The server comprises a recognition unit configured to recognize an obstacle on a travel path of the vehicle, an obtainment unit configured to obtain, upon detecting an approaching vehicle which is approaching the obstacle, a blind spot region which occurs due to the obstacle recognized by the recognition unit, and a notification unit configured to notify the approaching vehicle of information of the blind spot region obtained by the obtainment unit. The server is arranged in an apparatus other than the approaching vehicle.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine including: an exhaust diffuser including an inner tube and an outer tube that form therebetween an annular exhaust passage; a bearing chamber formed radially inside the inner tube for accommodating a bearing that supports a rotor of a turbine; a plurality of hollow struts extending across the exhaust passage; an oil introduction passage extending through one of the struts for introducing oil to be supplied to the bearing chamber; an oil drain passage extending through one of the struts for draining the oil from an exhaust oil inlet opened on a bottom surface of the bearing chamber; and an oil discharge passage for discharging a portion of the oil having passed through the oil introduction passage toward the oil drain inlet.

Abstract: Provided is a toroidal continuously variable transmission that can create a jet of oil resistant to the influence of wind generated by rotation of a power roller, thereby feeding a sufficient amount of oil to the power roller to cool the power roller with the oil; and a drive mechanism-integrated electricity generation apparatus for an aircraft, the electricity generation apparatus including the toroidal continuously variable transmission. The toroidal continuously variable transmission includes a discharge structure including an outlet that discharges an oil. The discharge structure includes first and second oil passages connected with each other inside the discharge structure, and arranged such that the oil flowing through the first oil passage and the second oil passage collide with each other in the vicinity of the outlet and that a jet of oil discharged from the outlet forms a flattened shape extending along a rotational direction of the power roller.

Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes: performing first aggregation that involves aggregating at least resin particles and releasing agent particles contained in a dispersion to prepare a dispersion A containing first aggregated particles; performing second aggregation that involves adding a dispersion B containing shell resin particles to the dispersion A and aggregating the shell resin particles to form second aggregated particles; and heating and fusing the second aggregated particles to form fused particles. A total of 40 mmol or more and 190 mmol or less of a basic compound is added, per kilogram of toner particles to be obtained, from a time aggregation starts to terminate in the second aggregation to a time a temperature is elevated to a fusion temperature in the heating and fusing.

Abstract: A method for producing a toner for electrostatic charge image development includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; terminating growth of the aggregated particles by adding an alkaline aqueous solution to a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to increase a pH of the dispersion containing the aggregated particles; and fusing and coalescing the aggregated particles into toner particles by heating the dispersion containing the aggregated particles. Terminating the growth of the aggregated particles includes, while stirring the dispersion containing the aggregated particles, stepwise or continuously reducing a stirring power per unit volume.

Abstract: A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes: mixing at least one flocculant into a liquid dispersion containing binder-resin particles by adding the flocculant into the liquid dispersion containing binder-resin particles while circulating the liquid dispersion containing binder-resin particles between a stirring vessel and a disperser that applies a mechanical shear force; forming aggregated particles by heating the liquid dispersion with the flocculant therein after reducing the viscosity of the liquid dispersion; and forming toner particles by heating the liquid dispersion containing the aggregated particles and thereby making the aggregated particles fuse and coalesce.

Abstract: A preparing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; and coalescing the aggregated particles by heating a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to form toner particles, in which the coalescing includes heating the dispersion containing the aggregated particles to 80° C. or higher so that a temperature of the dispersion containing the aggregated particles reaches 80° C., and then adding an acid and a surfactant to the dispersion containing the aggregated particles.

Abstract: A preparing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; and coalescing the aggregated particles by heating a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to form toner particles, The aggregating includes stirring the dispersion in the aggregating at a required stirring power of 1.0 kW/m3 or more and 6.0 kW/m3 or less per unit volume, and the preparing method satisfies the following Requirement (1), in which Requirement (1): a viscosity of the dispersion during the stirring is 5 Pa·s or more and 50 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 1/s, where the viscosity of the dispersion is measured at a sample temperature of 25° C. using a part of the dispersion as a sample.

Abstract: Provided is a toroidal continuously variable transmission that can achieve suitable oil feed both for lubrication at contact interfaces between a power roller and discs and for cooling of the power roller; and a drive mechanism-integrated electricity generation apparatus for an aircraft, the electricity generation apparatus including the toroidal continuously variable transmission. The toroidal continuously variable transmission includes at least one lubrication outlet that discharges an oil toward at least one contact interface between an input or output disc and the power roller; and at least one cooling outlet that discharges the oil toward the power roller. The cooling outlet and the lubrication outlet are arranged such that a distance between the cooling outlet and a point at which the oil discharged from the cooling outlet contacts the power roller is smaller than a distance between the lubrication outlet and the contact interface.

Abstract: A valve opening and closing timing control device includes: a drive-side rotary body rotating synchronously with a crankshaft; a driven-side rotary body arranged coaxially with the drive-side rotary body and rotating integrally with a valve opening and closing camshaft; a fluid pressure chamber defined between the drive-side and driven-side rotary bodies; advance and retard chambers defined by partitioning the fluid pressure chamber; an intermediate lock mechanism selectively switches between a lock state and a lock release state; advance and retard flow paths allowing a flow of the working fluid to be supplied to and discharged from the advance and retard chambers; a control valve including a spool; and a phase control unit moving a position of the spool by controlling a power supply amount to the control valve to supply and discharge the working fluid to and from the advance and retard chambers to displace a relative rotation phase.

Abstract: The antifouling structure of the present invention includes a porous structural layer and a non-volatile liquid in pores and/or on a surface of the porous structural layer. The porous structural layer includes a modified portion at least at a surface part of the porous structural layer, and the elemental ratio of fluorine to silicon (F/Si) in the surface part is within the range of 3 to 50.

Abstract: Provided is a quantitative dispensing system includes a supply device for supply a weighing object, and a weighing device including a holding unit to hold the weighing object supplied from the supply device, a load sensor unit to detect a load of the weighing object supplied to the holding unit, and an arithmetic processing unit to calculate a weighed value of the weighing object from a detection result on the load and control an operation of the supply device. The arithmetic processing unit performs control to stop the supply device when a current weighed value becomes not less than a supply stop weight value calculated by subtracting a stop weighed value deviation from a supply target weight value. The stop weighed value deviation is calculated in consideration of a flow rate and a supply pressure of the weighing object and a filter setting in the weighing device.

Abstract: A semiconductor test apparatus includes: a power supply; a high-voltage wire connecting high-voltage terminals of a plurality of semiconductor devices which are objects to be tested to a high-voltage side of the power supply; a low-voltage wire connecting low-voltage terminals of the semiconductor devices to a low-voltage side of the power supply; first switches connected in series to the semiconductor devices respectively, each of the first switches having one end connected to the low-voltage side of the power supply via the low-voltage wire and other end connected to the low-voltage terminal; second switches connected to the semiconductor devices respectively, each of the second switches having one end connected to the high-voltage terminal and other end connected to the low-voltage terminal; and a control circuit controlling the first switches and the second switches.

Abstract: A saddle-riding type vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a side stand bracket provided at a lower portion of one side of the vehicle body frame in a vehicle width direction, and a side stand supported by the side stand bracket, in which the side stand bracket includes a stand connecting portion to which a base end portion of the side stand is rotatably connected, and a protecting portion which is provided in front of the stand connecting portion in the vehicle and protects the base end portion of the side stand.

Abstract: A valve opening and closing timing control device includes: a drive-side rotary body rotating synchronously with a crankshaft; a driven-side rotary body provided inside the drive-side rotary body coaxially and rotating integrally with a camshaft; advance and retard chambers formed between the drive-side and driven-side rotary bodies; a lock mechanism switchable between a lock state and a lock release state; a valve unit including a fluid supply pipe into which fluid is supplied and a spool movable along a direction of the rotation axis, and controlling supply of the fluid to and from the lock mechanism, and the advance and retard chambers; and a tubular valve case having an internal space inside the driven-side rotary body and housing the valve unit in the internal space. A first opening portion is formed in the fluid supply pipe. A second opening portion is formed in the valve case.

Abstract: [Problem] The purpose of the invention is to provide: a thermoplastic elastomer composition capable of providing molded articles that are lightweight, have better oil resistance than those provided by conventional cross-linked thermoplastic elastomers, and have hardness and mechanical properties such as tensile strength and tensile elongation that are equal to or superior to those provided by conventional cross-linked thermoplastic elastomers; and an ethylene/?-olefin/unconjugated polyene copolymer having little compression set at low temperature as well as flexibility and an excellent balance of rubber elasticity at low temperature and tensile strength at normal temperature.