Abstract: A part includes a base material, a colored layer on the base material, and a surface layer on the colored layer, wherein the colored layer contains Zr, and optionally, C and/or N, a ratio (HZr oxide/HZr) of a peak height derived from Zr oxide (HZr oxide) to a peak height of Zr (HZr) at an interface of the colored layer on the side of the surface layer is more than 0 and less than 4.5, the interface is a point where Zr is detected by sputtering the part from the side of the surface layer with an XPS depth direction analysis, and the ratio (HZr oxide/HZr) at a point where Ar sputtering is performed for 5 minutes from the interface of the colored layer on the side of the surface layer with the XPS depth direction analysis is 0 to less than 3. The surface layer is water-repellent and exhibits a sputtering time of 5 minutes or less.

Abstract: A valve control apparatus including: an operating time measurement unit that measures an operating time of a valve based on an operation pressure of the valve and whether the valve is open or closed; and a command control unit that receives an opening command directed to the valve and transmitted from a control apparatus, and transmits the opening command to the valve in a delayed manner based on the operating time and a predetermined reference time.

Abstract: An airbag device for an occupant seat mounted on a vehicle includes an airbag case accommodated inside an instrument panel of the vehicle and having an opening formed toward the occupant seat, an inflator disposed in the airbag case and configured to inject gas, and a bag portion having a peripheral wall formed of a flexible sheet material and stored in the airbag case, the bag portion being configured to inflate and deploy toward the occupant seat from the opening by the gas injected from the inflator. The peripheral wall is provided with a hole configured to discharge the gas from inside the bag portion in an execution state of the inflation and deployment. The hole is formed on the peripheral wall to be located in a vicinity of the opening in a deployment completed state in which the inflation and deployment is completed.

Abstract: A passenger seat airbag device is disposed on an upper face side of an instrument panel, and includes an airbag that can inflate owing to an inflating gas flowing into an interior. The airbag includes a conduit portion connected to an inflator on a front end side and disposed in such a way as to extend approximately following a front-rear direction, and a main body inflation portion configured in such a way as to swell up and down and from left to right from a rear end side of the conduit portion and disposed to a rear side of the instrument panel. The main body inflation portion is configured in such a way that an upper end side is supported by a front windshield disposed above the instrument panel, and a lower front face side is supported by a rear face of the instrument panel when receiving an occupant.

Abstract: A fluid control device, capable of detecting leaks even if the leaks is slight, is provided. Further, a fluid leak abnormality is identified as a change accompanying an operation of the fluid control device and the fluid leaks is detected with high accuracy. A fluid control device, having a flow path and a closed space isolated from the flow path by a diaphragm and capable of detecting an abnormality, includes a pressure sensor detecting a pressure inside of the closed space, a processing module executing a predetermined information process, and an operation detecting mechanism detecting an operation of the fluid control device. The processing module executes a discriminating process discriminating abnormality of the fluid control device by comparing a detected value detected by the pressure sensor with a predetermined threshold value, and a correcting process correcting the predetermined threshold value in accordance with the operation of the fluid control device.

Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and has, at a t/4-position which is a position at a distance of t/4 from the surface in a sheet thickness direction cross section when the sheet thickness is defined as t, a metal structure including 20% or more of ferrite and a total of 40% or more of bainite and martensite in volume fraction, the remaining portion being at least one selected from retained austenite and perlite. In a square-shaped area in which the length of one side is t/4 and which is centered at the t/4-position in the sheet thickness direction cross section, when the Mn concentration is measured at multiple measurement points located apart at a 1 ?m-interval, the proportion of measurement points in which the Mn concentration is at least 1.1 times of the average value of the Mn concentration at all the measurement points is less than 10.0%. The steel sheet has a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.

Abstract: An entire fluid supply line or an entire fluid controller constituted by a plurality of fluid control devices is precisely monitored. A fluid controller G accumulating and having a plurality of fluid control devices A. The fluid control devices A include an operation information acquisition mechanism acquiring an operation information in the fluid control devices, an identification information storage 71 storing a self-identification information, and a communication processing unit 72 transmitting the operation information acquired by the operation information acquisition mechanism to an external terminal with the self-identification information stored in the identification information storage 71 at different timings for each of the fluid control devices A.

Abstract: A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, when a sheet thickness is denoted by t, a metallographic structure at a t/4-position, which is a position t/4 away from a surface, in a cross section in a sheet thickness direction includes, by volume percentage, martensite: 70% or greater and residual austenite: 10% or greater, the maximum grain diameter of the residual austenite is less than 5.0 ?m when a Mn concentration is measured at a plurality of measurement points at intervals of 1 ?m in a square region with a side length of t/4 centered at the t/4-position in the cross section in the sheet thickness direction, a proportion of measurement points at which the Mn concentration is 1.1 times or greater than the average of the Mn concentrations at all of the plurality of measurement points is less than 10.0%, and the tensile strength is 1,470 MPa or greater.

Abstract: A diaphragm valve includes a valve body that defines a flow path through which fluid flows and an opening that opens to the outside in a middle of flow path; a flexible partition member that covers the opening and separates the flow path from the outside, and changes a cross-sectional area of the flow path; and a flexible support member disposed on a rear surface side opposite to a flow path side of the flexible partition member. A housing is fixed to the valve body via peripheral portions of the flexible partition member and the flexible support member. A humidity sensor that detects a state of an atmosphere or a change thereof in a space defined by the flexible support member and an inner surface of the housing. The diaphragm valve is capable of preventing fluid in a diaphragm valve from leaking to the outside due to breakage of a diaphragm.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes the following: a seatbelt having a lap belt portion; a pretensioner mechanism that takes up the seatbelt; an inflator that discharges an inflating gas; and an airbag that is joined to the lap belt portion, the airbag including a bag main body portion, which is housed folded, inflates owing to the inflating gas being supplied, and receives an occupant, and a conduit portion, which guides the inflating gas discharged from the inflator to the bag main body portion, and causes the inflating gas to flow into the bag main body portion, wherein a length dimension along the lap belt portion of a joining region in which the airbag and the lap belt portion are joined is shorter than a length dimension along the lap belt portion of the bag main body portion in a folded state.

Abstract: An alkaline battery includes a bottomed tubular battery can made of metal, serving as a positive electrode current collector; a positive electrode mixture sealed in the battery can and formed in a cylindrical shape, the positive electrode mixture containing manganese dioxide as a positive electrode active material and containing a binder including fluorine resin such that a ratio of the binder to the positive electrode active material is 0.2 wt % or more and 0.8 wt % or less; a bottomed tubular separator sealed in the battery can and arranged on an inner peripheral side of the positive electrode mixture; a gel-form negative electrode mixture sealed in the battery can, arranged inside the separator, containing zinc powder as a negative electrode active material; and an electrolyte that includes an alkaline aqueous solution, sealed in the battery can.

Abstract: A metasurface element includes a support body and a metasurface formed on a surface of the support body. The metasurface includes a metal pattern that is disposed to emit an electron in response to incidence of an electromagnetic wave, and a metal layer that contains an alkali metal and is formed on the metal pattern. The metal layer extends beyond the metal pattern to reach a region on the surface of the support body, the region being not formed with the metal pattern.

Abstract: A heater device includes an insulating base material, a heater wire, a temperature detection element, a line and a branch line. The heater wire is provided on the insulating base material, forms a path through which current flows when energized, and generates heat when energized. The temperature detection element is provided on the insulating base material and has an electrical characteristics that change according to temperature. The line is provided on the insulating base material and is electrically connected to the temperature detection element. The branch line is provided on the insulating base material, has one end connected to the heater wire and the other end not connected to the heater wire, and extends around the temperature detection element.

Abstract: A heating wire having a first heating wire and a second heating wire. A receiving electrode is provided between the first heating wire and the second heating wire. A transmitting electrode includes a first transmitting electrode provided between the first heating wire and the receiving electrode, and a second transmitting electrode provided between the second heating wire and the receiving electrode. A distance between the first heating wire and the first transmitting electrode is defined as Dh1, a distance between the first transmitting electrode and the receiving electrode is defined as Ds1, a distance between the second heating wire and the second transmitting electrode is defined as Dh2, and a distance between the second transmitting electrode and the receiving electrode is defined as Ds2. A relationship of Dh1?Ds1 and Dh2?Ds2 is satisfied.

Abstract: A steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure at a ¼ thickness portion includes, by volume percentage, a total of 50% or more of one or both of martensite and bainite and 8% or more of residual austenite, an average value of aspect ratios of prior austenite grains is 5.0 or more, number density of AlN is 3000 pieces/mm2 or more and less than 6000 pieces/mm2 at a depth position of 30 ?m from a sheet surface, an internal oxidation layer in which at least a part of a crystal grain boundary is coated with an oxide is provided from the sheet surface to a depth of 5.0 ?m or more, grain boundary coverage of the oxide is 60% or more in a region from the sheet surface to a depth of 5.0 ?m, and a tensile strength is 980 MPa or more.

Abstract: An airbag includes: a bag main body: and regulating units configured to regulate an expansion completed shape of the bag main body. The bag main body has an expansion completed shape as a substantially square cylindrical shape, where a hollow portion which penetrates substantially along a left-right direction is provided and a circumference of the hollow portion is surrounded by an upper expansion portion and a lower expansion portion and a front expansion portion and a rear expansion portion. The regulating units are arranged at a plurality of horizontally symmetrical locations centered on a center of the bag main body on the left-right directional side and each of the regulating units is configured to straddle the hollow portion when viewed from a lateral side in the left-right direction and at least an upper edge side and a lower edge side are connected to the bag main body side.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus is configured to be used for a vehicle seat including an accommodation portion. The airbag apparatus includes an airbag. The airbag is configured such that a portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position rearward of the seat back, and is inflated and deployed away from the accommodation portion in the width direction in a position rearward of the headrest, and that another portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position forward of the seat back, and is deployed and inflated in a position forward of a head of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat and away from the accommodation portion in the width direction, so as to wrap around the head.

Abstract: A steering wheel airbag device includes an airbag and an inflator. The airbag includes: a bag body; and a rectifying member rectifies expansion gas discharged from the inflator. The rectifying member is provided with three gas outlet ports so that the expansion gas can flow out substantially along a ring surface of the ring portion and to left, right, and rear three sides. The rectifying member is configured by partially joining outer peripheral edges of a vehicle body side panel and a driver side panel. The vehicle body side panel is configured to have three joining portions which are joined to corresponding outer peripheral edges of the driver side panel and three non-joining regions between the joining portions arranged on an outer peripheral edge side of the flat surface portion. The gas outlet port is configured by a portion of the non-joining region between the joining portions.

Abstract: An electromagnetic valve has an inlet port and an outlet port. The electromagnetic valve is configured to open and close a driving fluid passage communicating the inlet port and the outlet port. The electromagnetic valve includes: a housing; a solenoid that includes a bobbin having a coil wound therearound; a moving core that is provided on an axis of the bobbin and is disposed movably in an axial direction; a stationary core that is provided on the axis of the bobbin and is fixed in the housing; and a valve that is configured to be movable together with the moving core and opens and closes the driving fluid passage. The inlet port is opened on one surface side of the housing in the axial direction of the bobbin while the outlet port is opened on the other surface side of the housing in the axial direction of the bobbin.

Abstract: A valve V1 capable of detecting an operation abnormality has a magnet M1 that is attached in the vicinity of a pressing adapter 52 of a stem 53 that slides according to an opening/closing operation of the valve V1, and a magnetic sensor M2 that is attached to a surface acing the stem 53, inside the pressing adapter 52 that presses a peripheral edge of a diaphragm 51, and detects a change in a distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2. Further, an abnormality determination mechanism compares the change in the distance between the magnet M1 and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of abnormality diagnosis detected by the magnetic sensor M2 and a previously measured change in the distance between the magnet M and the magnetic sensor M2 at the time of normality, and determines whether or not there is an abnormality.