Abstract: A stator includes an annular stator core that is comprised of a plurality of stator core segments, an outer ring that is fitted on the radially outer surfaces of the stator core segments so as to fasten them together, and a stator coil mounted on the stator core. Each of the stator core segments is formed of a plurality of stator core sheets that are laminated in the axial direction of the stator core. Each of the stator core sheets has a reinforcement portion that includes a recess formed in one of the major surfaces of the stator core sheet and a protrusion formed on the other major surface. The stator core sheets are laminated so that for each adjoining pair of the stator core sheets, the protrusion of one of the stator core sheets is fitted in the recess of the other stator core sheet.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for process management in a materials handling facility are described. Embodiments may include a process control component configured to generate a model of multiple unit handling processes of a materials handling facility. For each process, the model may indicate a measured throughput rate. The process control component may be configured to, based on at least one target output rate that is a goal for the output rate of a given unit handling process, evaluate the model to generate a particular target throughput rate that is a goal for the respective throughput rate of a particular unit handling process that is performed prior to the given unit handling process. The process control component may be configured to, based on the particular target throughput rate, generate one or more instructions to control the respective throughput rate of units processed by the particular unit handling process.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for managing shipment release from a storage area in a materials handling facility are described. Embodiments may include a system configured to identify multiple shipments that each includes one or more units that are eligible to be conveyed from a storage area to a respective packing station in a materials handling facility. The identification of a given shipment may include determining that shipment is compatible with a packing capability of the packing station. The system may be configured to evaluate each respective shipment according to one or more shipment-related criteria to generate a ranking of at least some of the multiple shipments. The system may, in response to determining that a particular shipment is ranked highest relative to other shipments of the ranking, generate an instruction to convey the units of that particular shipment from the storage area to the respective packing station.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for managing shipment release from a storage area in a materials handling facility are described. Embodiments may include a system configured to determine that a shipment including multiple units is expected to be conveyed from a storage area to a packing station in a materials handling facility. The system may also be configured to evaluate each respective unit of the shipment according to one or more criteria related to physical characteristics of the unit in order to generate an order in which the units of the shipment are to be provided to the packing station. The system may also be configured to generate an instruction to provide the units of the shipment to the packing station according to the generated order.

Abstract: A stator coil production method using a plurality of shaping press pairs. A stator coil is made up of in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and coil-end portions each of which extends every adjacent two of the in-slot portions. Each of the shaping press pairs has a die and a punch disposed on both sides of a conductor wire travel path. The method includes a first step of moving the die and the punch close to each other to shape a portion of a conductor wire into one of the coil-end portions, and a second step of bringing adjacent two of the shaping press pairs close to each other and simultaneously moving one of the adjacent two of the shaping press pairs in a direction perpendicular to the conductor wire to shape a portion of the conductor wire into one of the in-slot portion.

Abstract: A stator coil producing method and a stator coil production machine. The stator coil is used in an electric rotating machine. The stator coil production machine includes a rotary retainer which retains and moves shaping press pairs along a looped path to press or shape portions of a conductor wire into in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and coil-end portions which extend outside the slots. The method comprises a coil-end portion shaping step of bringing press members of each of the shaping press pairs close to each other in sequence to shape the coil-end portions and an in-slot portion shaping step of advancing the shaping press pairs on the looped path in contact with the cam mechanism and also moving selected ones of the shaping press pairs in sequence in a direction perpendicular to the path to shape the in-slot portions.

Abstract: A stator coil producing method and a stator coil production machine. The stator coil is used in an electric rotating machine. The stator coil production machine includes a rotary retainer which rotates to move shaping press pairs along a looped path. The rotary retainer has retaining holes through which the shaping press pairs are retained. The retaining holes are shaped to permit the shaping press pairs to move along the looped path, thereby pressing or shaping portions of a conductor wire into in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and coil-end portions each of which is to extend between adjacent two of the in-slot portions outside the slots. The method comprises an in-slot portion shaping step of shaping portions of the insulator-coated conductor wire into the in-slot portions and a coil-end portion shaping step of shaping portions of the insulator-coated conductor wire into the coil-end portions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a highly-pure fine titanium carbide powder having a maximum particle size of 100 nm or less and containing metals except titanium in an amount of 0.05 wt % or less and free carbon in an amount of 0.5 wt % or less. The powder has a NaCl-type crystal structure, and a composition represented by TiCxOyNz, wherein X, Y and Z satisfy the relations: 0.5?X?1.0; 0?Y?0.3; 0?Z?0.2; and 0.5?X+Y+Z?1.0.) The powder is produced by: dissolving an organic substance serving as a carbon source in a solvent to prepare a liquid, wherein the organic substance contains at least one OH or COOH group which is a functional group coordinatable to titanium of titanium alkoxide, and no element except C, H, N and O; mixing titanium alkoxide with the liquid to satisfy the following relation: 0.7???1.

Abstract: A skin substitute membrane includes a surface on one side including a groove-shaped depressed portion and a planar portion, the depressed portion having a cross section having a chamfered V-letter shape, the surface having an arithmetic mean roughness Sa of more than or equal to 10 ?m to less than or equal to 50 ?m. The depressed portion has a width of more than or equal to 50 ?m to less than or equal to 500 ?m and a depth of more than or equal to 30 ?m to less than or equal to 150 ?m. A spectral transmittance for light of more than or equal to 290 nm to less than or equal to 400 nm in wavelength is more than or equal to 50% and less than or equal to 100%.

Abstract: Disclosed is a highly-pure fine titanium carbide powder having a maximum particle size of 100 nm or less and containing metals except titanium in an amount of 0.05 wt % or less and free carbon in an amount of 0.5 wt % or less. The powder has a NaCl-type crystal structure, and a composition represented by TiCxOyNz, wherein X, Y and Z satisfy the relations: 0.5?X?1.0; 0?Y?0.3; 0?Z?0.2; and 0.5?X+Y+Z?1.0.) The powder is produced by: dissolving an organic substance serving as a carbon source in a solvent to prepare a liquid, wherein the organic substance contains at least one OH or COOH group which is a functional group coordinatable to titanium of titanium alkoxide, and no element except C, H, N and O; mixing titanium alkoxide with the liquid to satisfy the following relation: 0.7???1.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate material for an AlTiC-based magnetic head, which is excellent in ultra-low flying-related properties as a material for a magnetic head, such as a TPC or AAB type for use as a thin-film magnetic head slider for HDD devices and a thin-film magnetic head for tape recording devices, where a flying height between a magnetic head element and a recording medium is extremely reduced, and usable in perpendicular recording heads, HAMR heads or the like. The magnetic head substrate material consists of a sintered body which contains 10 to 50 mass % of TiCxOyNz (wherein: 0.70?x<1.0; 0<y?0.30; 0?z?0.1; and 0.70<x+y+z?1.0) having an NaCl-type crystal structure, with the remainder being ?-Al2O3, wherein compounds of Fe, Cr and Co are contained in an amount of no more than 0.02 mass % in total.

Abstract: Disclosed is a highly-pure fine titanium carbide powder having a maximum particle size of 100 nm or less and containing metals except titanium in an amount of 0.05 wt % or less and free carbon in an amount of 0.5 wt % or less. The powder has a NaCl-type crystal structure, and a composition represented by TiCxOyNz, wherein X, Y and Z satisfy the relations: 0.5?X?1.0; 0?Y?0.3; 0?Z?0.2; and 0.5?X+Y+Z?1.0.) The powder is produced by: dissolving an organic substance serving as a carbon source in a solvent to prepare a liquid, wherein the organic substance contains at least one OH or COOH group which is a functional group coordinatable to titanium of titanium alkoxide, and no element except C, H, N and O; mixing titanium alkoxide with the liquid to satisfy the following relation: 0.7???1.

Abstract: By assigning a fixed home address to an MN, Mobile IPv6 assures the arrival of each content at the MN 1. In order to allow the user to receive a Mobile IPv6 service, it is necessary to provide the MN 1 with a Mobile IPv6 function for making applications conform to IPv6. However, there are only few such MNs 1. In addition, the MN 1 does not have a function for implementing an IPsec process repeatedly on a packet transmitted to and received from another apparatus. A scenario processing port 23 employed in the MN 1 includes a means, which is used for selecting a process according to a communication method and carrying out the selected process when a response to a Mobile IPv6 location registration message is received. By providing the scenario processing port 23 with a means for selecting a communication method, a function can be added to the MN 1 with ease.

Abstract: A plane commutator is comprised of a plurality of commutator segments, a plurality of base plate and a resinous boss member. The commutators are made of sintered carbon compound and disposed to provide a plane commutator surface at an end thereof and a base portion at the other end. Each commutator segment has a projection extending from the base portion. The resinous boss member is disposed in contact with the base portion. Each base plate has an engagement hole, to which one of the projections is fitted, and a terminal portion that extends along an outer periphery of the boss member. A powder-accommodation pocket is formed around a foot of each the projection so that the projection can be shaved by a corner edge of the hole. This ensures good contact of the commutators with the metal base plates and provides a sufficient manufacturing tolerance.

Abstract: A plane commutator is comprised of a plurality of commutator segments, a plurality of base plate and a resinous boss member. The commutators are made of sintered carbon compound and disposed to provide a plane commutator surface at an end thereof and a base portion at the other end. Each commutator segment has a projection extending from the base portion. The resinous boss member is disposed in contact with the base portion. Each base plate has an engagement hole, to which one of the projections is fitted, and a terminal portion that extends along an outer periphery of the boss member. A powder-accommodation pocket is formed around a foot of each the projection so that the projection can be shaved by a corner edge of the hole. This ensures good contact of the commutators with the metal base plates and provides a sufficient manufacturing tolerance.

Abstract: To connect a computer to an electronic control unit of a vehicle and diagnose the trouble state of the vehicle, the computer is connected to a server storing trouble diagnosis data required for trouble diagnosis, and the trouble diagnosis data is read from the server, trouble diagnosis is proceeded with in an interactive mode with the computer using the read trouble diagnosis data, and vehicle data is automatically acquired from the electronic control unit using the read trouble diagnosis data.

Abstract: Determination is made as to whether or not a self-diagnostic tester 13 is connected with a K line 14. When the result of the determination indicates that the self-diagnostic tester 13 is not connected with the K line 14, data indicating vehicle-operating conditions are obtained from an engine ECU 11 and the like through a K line 14.

Abstract: A failure diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a failure in a vehicular electronic control system includes a plurality of electronic control related members mounted on a vehicle, a multiple communication line connected to the plurality of electronic control related members as communication elements, such that communication signal information received from the multiple communication line is analyzed by an analyzing portion. A communication system region which may have failed in the multiple communication system is specified based on presence or absence of communication of the electronic control related members, and the electronic control related member which may have failed is specified based on a data content of a communication signal provided from communication information. Respective states are displayed by proper value data and detected value data of the electronic control related members.

Abstract: A failure diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a failure in a vehicular electronic control system includes a plurality of electronic control related members mounted on a vehicle, a multiple communication line connected to the plurality of electronic control related members as communication elements, such that communication signal information received from the multiple communication line is analyzed by an analyzing portion. A communication system region which may have failed in the multiple communication system is specified based on presence or absence of communication of the electronic control related members, and the electronic control related member which may have failed is specified based on a data content of a communication signal provided from communication information. Respective states are displayed by proper value data and detected value data of the electronic control related members.

Abstract: To connect a computer to an electronic control unit of a vehicle and diagnose the trouble state of the vehicle, the computer is connected to a server storing trouble diagnosis data required for trouble diagnosis, and the trouble diagnosis data is read from the server, trouble diagnosis is proceeded with in an interactive mode with the computer using the read trouble diagnosis data, and vehicle data is automatically acquired from the electronic control unit using the read trouble diagnosis data.