Abstract: Provided is a communication system for an air conditioner including a housing and a control board accommodated in the housing. The communication system includes: a communication conversion unit accommodated in the housing and configured to acquire a required electric signal from the control board and to convert the electric signal into a digital signal for wire transmission; a cable having a first end connected to the communication conversion unit, the cable being drawn out of the housing to outside; and an antenna unit connected to a second end of the cable located outside the housing, the antenna unit being configured to establish wireless communication with a base station.

Abstract: A method of forming a boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate includes forming, on the substrate, an adhesion layer containing an element contained in a surface of the substrate and nitrogen, and subsequently, forming the boron-based film on the adhesion layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a lithium sulfamate which includes (1) reacting a compound (1) represented by the following formula (1): wherein X is fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine, with a compound (2) represented by the following formula (2): wherein R1 and R2 are each individually —H or a substituent as defined herein, the substituent optionally containing at least one bi- to hexavalent heteroatom in the structure and being a substituent in which at least one hydrogen atom is optionally replaced with a fluorine atom or a C0-C7 functional group, to obtain a compound (3) represented by the following formula (3): wherein R1 and R2 are defined as above.

Abstract: A water- and oil-repellent agent including: (a) a fluorine-containing monomer represented by the general formula CH2?C(—X)—C(?O)—Y—Z—Rf [where X is a hydrogen atom, a monovalent organic group, or a halogen atom, Y is —O— or13 NH—, Z is a direct bond or a divalent organic group, and Rf is a fluoroalkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms]; and (b) a fluorine-containing copolymer containing a repeating unit derived from nonyl(meth)acrylate. Also disclosed is a textile product including a fibrous substrate treated with the water- and oil-repellent agent.

Abstract: A storage control apparatus configured to be coupled to a redundant configuration including a first and second storage devices, the storage control apparatus includes: a memory; and processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the processing circuitry being configured to execute a first processing that includes dealing with access to any of the first and second storage devices from a higher-level apparatus; and execute a second processing that includes converting an access destination of the access such that each same physical position in the first and second storage devices corresponds to a first logical address for a first storage device and a second logical address for the second storage device, the first logical address being a logical address different from the second logical address.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermal print head includes a heat sink; a head substrate placed on the heat sink and having a plurality of heat generating elements arranged in a primary scanning direction; a circuit board placed on the heat sink so as to be adjacent to the head substrate in an auxiliary scanning direction and provided with a connection circuit; and a control element electrically connected to the heat generating element via a first bonding wire and electrically connected to the connection circuit via a second bonding wire, in which at least one of the first bonding wire and the second bonding wire includes any of a copper wire, a copper alloy wire, and a wire mainly made of copper and coated with a metal different from copper.

Abstract: A method for producing lithium fluorosulfonate which includes reacting XSO3H, wherein X is a leaving group other than fluorine, with a lithium source and a fluorine source. Also disclosed is a composition containing XSO3H.

Abstract: Provided is a water repellent composition which does not use a fluorine-containing monomer, especially a fluoroalkyl group-containing monomer. A water repellent composition which contains (1) (a) a polymer which has a repeating unit derived from an amide group-containing monomer that is represented by formula: (wherein R1 represents an organic residue having an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable group; R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 7-30 carbon atoms; and R3 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1-5 carbon atoms) in an amount of 2-100% by weight relative to the polymer, and (2) a liquid medium.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermal print head includes a heat sink, a head substrate having a plurality of heat generating elements placed on the heat sink and disposed in a primary scanning direction, a circuit board placed on the heat sink so as to be adjacent to the head substrate in an auxiliary scanning direction and provided with a connection circuit, and a control element electrically connected to the heat generating element via a first bonding wire and electrically connected to the connection circuit via a second bonding wire, wherein a plurality of first bonding wires is disposed in parallel in the primary scanning direction, and among the first bonding wires, the first bonding wire having a length of at least 2 mm or more is a metal wire having a Young's modulus greater than that of gold.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing more beautiful black coated steel sheets by uniformly blackening the coating layer. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing black coated steel sheets, which brings Zn—Al—Mg alloy coated steel sheets (1) into contact with steam in a closed container (10), wherein said closed container (10) can maintain a predefined internal pressure through variable control of the amount of steam flowing into said closed container (10) and/or the amount of steam flowing out of said closed container (10), and in said closed container (10) that can maintain said predefined pressure, said Zn—Al—Mg alloy coated steel sheets (1) have contact with the steam introduced into said closed container (10).

Abstract: A spline telescopic shaft of a vehicular propeller shaft includes a spline outer shaft and a spline inner shaft. In an outer peripheral surface of an outer spline provided on the spline inner shaft, a first portion is coated with a coating film, and a second portion is not coated with the coating film. The first portion extends from an end portion of the outer spline to a prescribed position, the end portion of the outer spline being located on a side of a distal end portion of the spline inner shaft, the prescribed position being located closer to the distal end portion of the spline inner shaft than an end surface of an inner spline is, and the end surface of the inner spline being located on a side of an opening portion of the spline outer shaft.

Abstract: The vibration control system configured to control vibration of a vibration-controlled object is disclosed. The vibration control system comprises: (i) actuator units each including a piezoelectric element configured to expand and contract; (ii) a drive power source configured to supply drive voltages to the piezoelectric elements of the actuator units for causing the piezoelectric elements to expand and contract; (iii) a vibration detector configured to detect a status of vibration of the vibration-controlled object; and (iv) a vibration controller configured to control the vibration of the vibration-controlled object by controlling the voltages supplied by the drive power source to the piezoelectric elements of the actuator units based on the status of vibration detected by the vibration detector, respectively.

Abstract: Provided is an externally heated carbonization furnace that includes a plurality of rotary kilns connected in series, each of which includes an outer cylinder, a kiln inner cylinder that rotate relative to the outer cylinder, and a heater that supplies heating gas to a section between the outer cylinder and the kiln inner cylinder. The externally heated carbonization furnace further includes a drive device that rotates at least one of the kiln inner cylinders and the kiln inner cylinder different from the at least one of the kiln inner cylinders and a control device that controls the drive device according to moisture content of a treated object in the kiln inner cylinder.

Abstract: There is provided a boron-based film forming method for forming a boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate. The method includes steps of loading a substrate into a chamber of a film forming apparatus for forming the boron-based film by plasma CVD using capacitively-coupled plasma, supplying a processing gas containing a boron-containing gas into the chamber, applying a high frequency power for generating the capacitively-coupled plasma and forming the boron-based film on the substrate by generating a plasma of the processing gas by the high frequency power. A film stress of the boron-based film is adjusted by the high frequency power in the applying step.

Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: a dial plate having an indicator portion corresponding to vehicle information on a viewing side; an image display panel disposed on a back side of the dial plate opposite to the viewing side to luminescently display an image; and a light transmissive display plate that includes a reflective portion disposed on the viewing side of the dial plate to reflect a light from a light source to the viewing side. A region of the dial plate, which faces the image display panel, is set to have a light transmission property to transmit the image of the image display panel through the region of the dial plate.

Abstract: A method of forming a boron-based film includes forming the boron-based film mainly containing boron on a substrate by plasma CVD using plasma of a processing gas including a boron-containing gas; and controlling film stress of the formed boron-based film by adjusting a process parameter.

Abstract: A display device for a vehicle includes: a display unit; a light guide plate disposed on a viewing side of the display unit and having translucency; and a light source unit that causes a light source light to enter inside of the light guide plate through an outer peripheral portion of the light guide plate. The light guide plate includes a reflecting portion having a plurality of reflecting elements to reflect the light source light from the light source unit to the viewing side. The reflecting element has a reflective curved surface formed in a curved surface shape to face the outer peripheral portion where the light source light is incident.

Abstract: The vibration control system configured to control vibration of a vibration-controlled object is disclosed. The vibration control system comprises: (i) actuator units each including a piezoelectric element configured to expand and contract; (ii) a drive power source configured to supply drive voltages to the piezoelectric elements of the actuator units for causing the piezoelectric elements to expand and contract; (iii) a vibration detector configured to detect a status of vibration of the vibration-controlled object; and (iv) a vibration controller configured to control the vibration of the vibration-controlled object by controlling the voltages supplied by the drive power source to the piezoelectric elements of the actuator units based on the status of vibration detected by the vibration detector, respectively.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermal print head includes a heat sink; a head substrate placed on the heat sink and having a plurality of heat generating elements arranged in a primary scanning direction; a circuit board placed on the heat sink so as to be adjacent to the head substrate in an auxiliary scanning direction and provided with a connection circuit; and a control element electrically connected to the heat generating element via a first bonding wire and electrically connected to the connection circuit via a second bonding wire, in which at least one of the first bonding wire and the second bonding wire includes any of a copper wire, a copper alloy wire, and a wire mainly made of copper and coated with a metal different from copper.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermal print head includes a heat sink, a head substrate having a plurality of heat generating elements placed on the heat sink and disposed in a primary scanning direction, a circuit board placed on the heat sink so as to be adjacent to the head substrate in an auxiliary scanning direction and provided with a connection circuit, and a control element electrically connected to the heat generating element via a first bonding wire and electrically connected to the connection circuit via a second bonding wire, wherein a plurality of first bonding wires is disposed in parallel in the primary scanning direction, and among the first bonding wires, the first bonding wire having a length of at least 2 mm or more is a metal wire having a Young's modulus greater than that of gold.