Abstract: A radiation image scanner that reads a radiation image from an imaging plate, the radiation image scanner including: a stage that holds the imaging plate; an excitation light source that irradiates the imaging plate held by the stage with excitation light; and a photodetector that detects light emitted from the imaging plate by the excitation light, in which the stage includes: a stage body that includes a supporting surface capable of being brought into surface contact with a back surface of the imaging plate; and a positioning mechanism that includes a positioning surface being in contact with an edge portion of the imaging plate supported on the supporting surface and positioning the edge portion from outside along the supporting surface while pressing the edge portion against the supporting surface.

Abstract: An image recording method includes applying a conductive ink onto a base material by using an ink jet recording method and performing ultraviolet irradiation on the conductive ink applied onto the base material to form a conductive layer, in which a content of a liquid component of the conductive ink at a time when the ultraviolet irradiation begins is 5% by mass or more with respect to a content of the liquid component of the conductive ink at a time when the conductive ink is applied onto the base material.

Abstract: Provided is an ink set containing an insulating ink that contains at least one polymerization initiator selected from the group consisting of an oxime compound, an alkylphenone compound, and a titanocene compound and a polymerizable monomer, and a conductive ink that contains at least one of a metal complex or a metal salt. Also provided are applications of the ink set.

Abstract: Power source device includes: battery stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; a pair of end plates that each have a plate shape having a main surface and a side surface intersecting the main surface, are formed with plate screw hole on the side surface, and are arranged on both side end surfaces of battery stack; a plurality of fastening members that are extended in stack direction of the battery stack, have fastening screw holes opened at ends, and couple end plates to each other; and bolt that is inserted into fastening screw hole of each fastening member and plate screw hole of end plate to fix the fastening member to end plate. The fastening member includes plate-shaped fastening body, intermediate part obtained by bending both ends of fastening body, and coupling piece obtained by bending an end of intermediate part far from fastening body to provide a height difference from fastening body and form fastening screw hole.

Abstract: A brake caliper for a bicycle includes a housing configured to be installed on the bicycle, the bicycle including a disc attached to a wheel of the bicycle. A brake pad is installed within the housing and is configured to move between a braking position and a non-braking position. The braking position is a location within the housing where the brake pad contacts the disc when the housing is installed on the bicycle. The non-braking position is a location within the housing where the brake pad is further from the disc than in the braking position. The caliper also includes a biasing member configured to bias the brake pad in a downstream direction within the housing with the brake pad is in the non-braking position, the downstream direction being parallel to a direction of rotation of the disc when a wheel of the bicycle is rotating to move the bicycle forward.

Abstract: Power supply device (100) includes: battery stack (10) in which a plurality of battery cells (1) are stacked, each battery cell (1) having gas discharge valve (1c) that opens when an internal pressure of an outer covering can rises and electrode terminal (2) formed on an upper surface; first cover (41) that is provided on an upper surface of battery stack (10) and opens at a position corresponding to gas discharge valve (1c); and second cover (42) that is provided on an upper surface of first cover (41) and defines gas duct (38) with first cover (41). Gas duct (38) forms baffle plate (48) between first cover (41) and second cover (42). Power supply device (100) further includes metallic third cover (39) provided on an upper surface of second cover (42) and abutting on the upper surface of second cover (42).

Abstract: A vehicle body including side is provided. The vehicle body includes left and right side frames that extend in a vehicle body forward-rearward direction and support a collision load acting from the front or the rear, and a coupling member that is joined to open ends of the side frames and restricts displacement between the open ends in a direction in which the open ends are away from each other. The side frame has a plurality of low-strength sections disposed with high-strength sections interposed therebetween in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction and having a lower strength than the high-strength sections in the vehicle body forward-rearward direction. The low-strength section closer to the open end has a lower strength in the forward-rearward direction.

Abstract: A method for producing low-carbon ferromanganese capable of achieving a high Mn yield. In producing low-carbon ferromanganese by blowing an oxidizing gas from a top-blowing lance onto a bath face of high-carbon ferromanganese molten metal accommodated in a reaction vessel provided with a top-blowing lance and bottom-blowing tuyere to perform decarburization, the slag composition during the blowing is adjusted so that a value of (CaO+MgO)/(Al2O3+SiO2) on a mass basis in the slag composition is not less than 0.4 but not more than 5.0. Also, agitation is performed under a condition that an agitation power density ? of an agitation gas blown through the bottom-blowing tuyere is not less than 500 W/t.

Abstract: A press forming method includes: press forming a press formed product including a top portion, a side wall portion continuous from the top portion through a punch shoulder portion, and a flange portion continuous from the side wall portion through a die shoulder portion, the press formed product including a curved portion that is concave and curved in a top view; and increasing a bending radius of the punch shoulder portion in the curved portion from a center of a curve toward an end side of the curve.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing including an illumination opening at a position viewable by a user; a blower provided in an airflow path connecting an inlet and outlet; a light emitter provided in the housing viewable through the illumination opening and including a light incident portion to receive light emitted from a first light source and a first light emission portion to emit first light generated from the light and including light simulating natural light; and at least one light extractor emitting second light that is part of the light received by the light emitter that reaches an edge portion of the light emitter without being emitted as the first light or second light received from the first light source or a second light source different from the first light source without intervention of the light emitter. The at least one light extractor is provided in the airflow path.

Abstract: Power supply device includes: battery stack in which a plurality of battery cells each including, on a top surface thereof, gas discharge valve that opens when an internal pressure of outer covering can increases are stacked; first cover provided on a top surface of battery stack and defining first gas duct communicating with gas discharge valve; and second cover provided on a top surface of first cover and defining second gas duct on a top surface of first gas duct. A plurality of communication holes through which first gas duct and second gas duct communicate with each other are formed on the top surface of first cover.

Abstract: A shape change prediction method for a press formed part predicts a shape change of the press formed part over time after springback at a moment of a release from a press-forming die, and includes: a shape/residual stress immediately after the springback acquisition step of acquiring a shape and a residual stress of the press formed part immediately after the springback by a springback analysis of the press formed part; a residual stress relaxation/reduction setting step of setting a value of a residual stress relaxed and reduced from the acquired residual stress to all bent portions or a part of the bent portions in the press formed part immediately after the springback; and a shape analysis step of determining a shape in which moments of force are balanced for the press formed part in which the value of the residual stress relaxed and reduced in the bent portions is set.

Abstract: A press forming method for controlling a shape change of a press formed part over time after the press formed part springs back at a moment of a release from a press-forming die includes: a press forming step of press forming a metal sheet into the press formed part by using the press-forming die; a die releasing step of releasing the press formed part, which is press-formed, from the press-forming die; and a post-release die holding step of holding the released press formed part in a forming bottom dead center shape for 30 minutes or more by using the press-forming die.

Abstract: A power supply device includes battery cells each having a rectangular external shape, a separator disposed between the battery cells, a pair of end plates that are disposed on respective ends of a battery assembly in which the separator and the battery cells are stacked, and a bind bar that binds the pair of end plates. The separator has insulating rib parts that protrude from both surfaces of the separator, and the insulating rib parts of the separator stacked on each surface of the battery cell are stacked on each other on a bottom surface of the battery cell. The insulating rib parts are stacked on each other on the bottom surface of the battery cell by inserting an insertion rib provided in one of the stacked insulating rib parts into an insertion groove provided in the other of the stacked insulating rib parts.

Abstract: A shape change prediction method for a press formed part for predicting a shape change of the press formed part with a lapse of time units after springback at a moment of a release from a die includes: a shape/residual stress immediately after springback acquisition step of acquiring a shape and a residual stress of the press formed part immediately after the springback by a springback analysis of the press formed part; a residual stress relaxation/reduction setting step of setting a value of a residual stress relaxed and reduced from the acquired residual stress to the press formed part immediately after the springback; and a shape analysis step of determining a shape, in which moments of force are balanced, for the press formed part to which the value of the relaxed and reduced residual stress is set.

Abstract: A wafer processing method includes a polyolefin sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyolefin sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyolefin sheet as applying a pressure to the polyolefin sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyolefin sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form shield tunnels in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of heating the polyolefin sheet, pushing up each device chip through the polyolefin sheet, and picking up each device chip from the polyolefin sheet.

Abstract: There are provided an evaluation method and a prediction method for a technology to be reflected in a press die designing method. A deformation limit evaluation method includes evaluating the deformation limit on a sheared surface of a metal sheet in press-forming the sheared metal sheet. The deformation limit is evaluated and a crack in the sheared surface is predicted based on the relationship between an index value determined from two surface strain distribution gradients of a surface strain distribution gradient in a sheet thickness direction in the sheared surface and a surface strain distribution gradient in a bending ridge line direction by bending in a direction away from the sheared surface at an evaluation position among distributions of strains generated near the boundary between a bending outside surface and the sheared surface of the metal sheet to be bent and a tension generated in the sheared surface.

Abstract: An article processing apparatus includes: a configuration determination unit configured to determine a configuration of at least one transport unit including articles, and stacked article groups each including a pallet, and at least one of the articles placed on the pallet, wherein the at least one of the articles is placed on the pallet in a manner that allows a pallet of another article group to be placed thereon, excluding uppermost one of the stacked article groups; a palletizing mechanism configured to place the at least one of the articles on the pallet so as to form each of the article groups included in the transport unit whose configuration is determined by the configuration determination unit; and a stacking mechanism configured to stack the article groups formed by the palletizing mechanism so as to form the transport unit determined by the configuration determination unit.

Abstract: To prevent a crack from occurring on a sheared end face due to press forming, a technology is provided for evaluating and predicting a crack limit of the sheared end face of a metal sheet and determining press forming conditions. In a deformation limit evaluation method for, when deforming by press forming a metal sheet subjected to shearing, evaluating a deformation limit of the sheared end face of the metal sheet, the deformation limit is evaluated by an index value obtained from two stress gradients at an evaluation position among stress distributions occurring in the vicinity of the sheared end face of the metal sheet due to the press forming, which gradients are a stress gradient in a sheet thickness direction and a stress gradient in a direction away from the sheared end face.

Abstract: A wafer processing method includes a polyolefin sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyolefin sheet on a back side or a front side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyolefin sheet as applying a pressure to the polyolefin sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyolefin sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of applying a laser beam to the wafer to form shield tunnels in the wafer, thereby dividing the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of picking up each device chip from the polyolefin sheet.