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An electric motor 10 and a reduction gear mechanism 11 are connected to each other by a flexible coupling 12, such as an Oldham's coupling, which is a power transmission mechanism. Also, a casing 11c of the reduction gear mechanism 11 is integrally structured together with a knuckle 5, which is an unsprung part of a vehicle, or mounted to the knuckle 5. Further, a motor case 10a of the electric motor 10 is mounted to a motor mounting member 4m provided on the lower part of a strut 4 for suspending the knuckle 5 through the medium of a shock absorbing mechanism 20 equipped with a spring member 21, a damper, and two guide members 23 for guiding the operating direction of the spring member 21 and the damper. An in-wheel motor system thus structured allows the mass of the motor 10 to act as the mass of a dynamic damper and thus features not only improved ground contact performance and riding comfort of a vehicle running on a rough road but also superior space efficiency.

A cleaning system includes a robot cleaner having an opening unit and a first dirt container funneled to the opening unit, and a maintenance station to which robot cleaner is docked to discharge dirt stored in the first dirt container The maintenance station includes a first inlet hole configured to intake dirt from the first dirt container through the opening unit, a first outlet hole configured to blow air into the first dirt container, a circulating passage provided between the first inlet hole and the first outlet hole, a second dirt container disposed on the circulation passage to store dirt taken in from the robot cleaner, a draft apparatus having a draft fan and a fan motor to drive the draft fan to circulate air through the circulating passage, and a second outlet hole configured to discharge air inside the circulating passage of the maintenance station to an outside.

A dielectric fluid comprising hydrocarbon liquid admixed with an ester-based compound, wherein the ester-based compound is present in an effective amount to impart breakdown inhibiting properties to a paper insulation material when the dielectric fluid is in contact with the paper material.

A mobile terminal includes a first frame, a second frame slidably-movable in a first direction or in a second direction opposite to the first direction from the first frame, a slide frame movable in the first direction or in the second direction with respect to the second frame, a flexible display unit including a first region coupled to the first frame, a second region coupled to the slide frame, and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region and bent while surrounding the second frame, a driving unit disposed to be positionally biased in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the driving unit provides a force to the second frame to move, and a linear guide positioned between the first frame and the second frame and guiding the movement of the second frame in the first direction or in the second direction. The mobile terminal may improve durability of the flexible display unit by not restricting a point where the flexible display unit is bent to a specific position.

The pre-EGR gas cooler 1 for cooling the EGR gas introduced from the EGR pipe, and an post-EGR gas cooler for introducing the pre-EGR gas cooled in the EGR gas cooler 1 to cool it to a target cooling temperature are coupled in series, and an EGR valve is mounted for controlling the flow rate of the EGR gas between the pre-EGR gas cooler 1 and the post-EGR gas cooler 3. According to the invention, EGR gas cooling apparatus with improved durability can be obtained, and EGR valves with low product cost and high storage efficiency can be provided.

The invention relates to an aqueous-based fluoropolymer coating that is especially useful for use over flat or low-slope flexible surfaces, and more specifically for flat or low-slope roofing. The coating can be factory or field applied. The coating offers the advantages of improved durability, lower dirt pick-up, stain resistance, water repellency, increased solar reflectivity duration, and mildew resistance.

In a linkage mechanism between a trigger valve and a control valve in a nail gun, the control valve is disposed on a main body of the nail gun. A valve plug of the control valve adjoins to a safety rod of the nail gun. A trigger valve is mounted on the main body and an outer trigger is disposed adjacent to the trigger valve. A valve stem of the trigger valve is extended in the outer trigger. An inner trigger is pivotably connected to a bottom end of the valve stem. An end of a rod member is slidably disposed at a side of the outer trigger and another end of the rod member is connected between the valve plug and the safety rod with an arm. A stopping portion is formed at a middle portion of the rod member. The stopping portion is configured for pressing the outer trigger so as to drive the inner trigger to push the rod member, the arm, the valve plug and the safety rod to move along a nail driving direction of the nail gun. The present linkage mechanism can improve a stability of controlling of nail shooting action and a durability of the nail gun.

A pneumatic tire using a laminate of a layer of a rubber or thermoplastic resin composition containing an oxygen absorbent laminated with inner liner materials on both surfaces thereof, as a an inner liner, as a tie rubber, as a rubber member interposed between the edges of a tire structural material and the tire inside surface (i.e., the inner liner), or in the form of a sheet as a filler sheet between each edge of a tire structural material and an inner liner, whereby deterioration of the tire durability due to permeation of air filled inside the pneumatic tire into the inside of the tire can be prevented.

The present application relates to an encapsulation composition and a photovoltaic cell module comprising the same, which may provide an encapsulation composition having excellent adhesivity of glass and modules with other members as well as excellent transparency, heat stability, ultraviolet stability and impact resistance. Therefore, the present application may provide a photovoltaic cell module that no peeling-off among elements, and the like, is caused, even when the module is used for a long time.

A vibration damping device including: first and second mounting members; a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting the two members; and a bracket member fit into the first mounting member. A projecting part projects outward from a circumference of the first mounting member, and includes a locking groove whose inner surface is covered by a rubber coating layer and has a locking part on its side wall inner surface. An engaging projection projecting from the bracket member is fit into the locking groove, and a projection tip surface of the engaging projection is abutted on a bottom wall inner surface of the locking groove. A side surface of the engaging projection is locked to the locking part so as to constitute a positioning member that positions the first mounting member and the bracket member to each other.

A heavy duty tire comprises: a bead filler disposed radially outside a bead core and axially outside a carcass main portion; a bead-reinforcing layer made of steel cords; and a chafer made of a rubber extending along the bead bottom surface. The chafer rubber has a complex elastic modulus in a range of 8 to 12 MPa and a 100% modulus in a range of 4.0 to 5.5 MPa. In the bead-reinforcing layer, the steel cord count is 25 to 40/5 cm, the steel cord diameter is 0.8 to 1.2 mm, and the cord angle is 30 to 60 degrees with respect to the tire radial direction. The bead filler comprises a main filler made of a low modulus rubber and a fastening filler made of a high modulus rubber. The fastening filler has an L-shaped cross sectional shape and comprises an axially-extending base portion and a radially-extending axially inner portion. The main filler has a part wedged between the base portion and axially inner portion of the fastening filler.

A valve body has one or more integral seal retention grooves and one or more interior hollows which may be manufactured using frictional or other types of welding to join two previously formed portions through at least one cylindrical web. Forging or casting valve body portions to near-net-shape prior to joining minimizes machining necessary to achieve a final desired shape. One or more interior hollows and an integral seal retention groove are formed in the welded valve body from features present on the portions joined by welding to form the body. Increased valve durability and reduced metal wear arise from the reduced valve body weight and correspondingly reduced impact loading. An elastomeric seal may be cast and cured in place in a seal retention groove.

The invention discloses a deep cavity processing method based on a titanium alloy monobloc forging component. The deep cavity processing method comprises the following steps of: firstly performing hole drilling process by selecting an uncoated hard alloy drilling-and-cutting blade, wherein an internal cooling manner is adopted; performing inserting-and-drilling processing on a deep cavity by adopting a coated inserting-and-milling blade, wherein an S-shaped processing path is adopted, the row spacing S is 0.5 multiplied by the diameter of a blade, the cutting speed V is 30m/min, the radial knifing depth ae is 0.3 multiplied by the diameter of the blade, feed per tooth fZ is 0.08mm/z, and the blade is retracted in an arc manner; performing inserting-and-milling crude processing by adopting the same blade, wherein the S-shaped processing path is adopted, and the adopted row spacing S is 5mm; performing inserting-and-milling essence processing, wherein the S-shaped processing path is adopted, the adopted row spacing is shown as the description, the blade is retracted in the arc manner, and the internal cooling manner is adopted; performing milling-and-cutting processing on the bottom filleted corner of the deep cavity by adopting a round head milling blade; and finally polishing. Through the adoption of the deep cavity processing method disclosed by the invention, the number of the adopted blades during the deep cavity processing is small, the blade changing times and the corresponding assisting time are shortened, the durable degree of the blades is increased, and the processing precision of the deep cavity is guaranteed.

A contact provided in a welding tip of an arc welding apparatus includes a tip body adapted to be mounted to a welding torch body and a tip end member formed integrally therewith. The tip end member is divided into two parts, i.e., first and second halves by means of a slit formed along the axis of the tip end member, and the first half having the predetermined rigidity is movable around a connection between itself and the tip body. A spring member fitted on the tip end member applies a spring force thereto, whereby the contact has improved durability.

A vertical heat-processing apparatus (1) includes a vertical heat-processing furnace (2) having a furnace port (3), a lid (5) movable up and down to open and close the furnace port, and a rotation mechanism (15) disposed on the lid to rotate a holder (13) that holds a number of target substrates (W). The rotation mechanism (15) includes a rotary shaft (16), and a support unit (19) that supports the rotary shaft (16) rotatably through a bearing (17) and sealing member (18). The rotary shaft (16) has a hollow structure with a thin wall, and is supplied with a cooling gas to flow inside and outside the rotary shaft. The support unit (19) has a cooling passage (32) surrounding an upper portion of the rotary shaft (16), and is supplied with a coolant to flow through the cooling passage.

The invention provides a socket type self-returning multi-section prefabricated pier and an assembly method thereof. The multi-section prefabricated pier comprises a bearing platform and the prefabricated bridge pier, wherein the prefabricated pier comprises a inserting bearing platform section, a plurality of pier body sections, a prestressed tendon, and energy dissipation ribs; the assembly method comprises the following steps that the prefabricated pier is prefabricated; a horizontal assembly method is adopted in a prefabricated factory, and the prestressed tendon is tensioned to enable allthe sections to be connected into a whole; and high-strength non-shrinkage cement slurry is injected into a pier grouting sleeve through grouting holes. On the site, the pier is lifted and is inserted into a pier installing hole, so that a certain gap is kept between the outer wall of the inserting bearing platform section and the inner wall of the pier installing hole; and after the prefabricated bridge pier is positioned, a guide pipe is inserted into the bottom of the gap, the high-strength non-shrinkage cement slurry is injected into the bottom through the guide pipe, and the slurry is discharged from bottom to top until the gap between the inserting bearing platform section and the pier installing hole is completely filled.

According to the present invention there is provided a heat ode imaging element for making a lithographic printing plate having n a lithographic base with a hydrophilic surface a first layer including a polymer, soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution and a top layer on the same side of the lithographic base as the first layer which top layer is IR-sensitive and unpenetrable or insoluble for an alkaline developer wherein said first layer and said top layer may be one and the same layer and said first layer and said top layer being the imaging layers; characterized in that said imaging layers have a glass transition temperature of at least 57° C.

A cryogenic variable temperature scanning tunneling microscope of novel design and component configuration, for use in conjunction with a variety of low temperature methodologies.

A spatial light modulator has a substrate; a movable member which is disposed so as to hang across the substrate in a displaceable manner and has a conductive section provided in at least a portion of the movable member; an optical function film which follows mechanical displacement of the movable member and is fixed to the same; and a drive fixed electrode which is disposed outside a range of mechanical displacement of the movable member and displaces and drives the movable member. Electrostatic attractive force is generated between the movable member and the driving fixed electrode by applying a drive voltage between the conductive section of the movable member and the driving fixed electrode, thereby displacing and driving the movable member, bringing the same into a stationary state in a non-contacting manner, and modulating light radiated on the optical function film.

A coating composition for forming etch mask patterns may include a polymer and an organic solvent. The polymer may have an aromatic ring substituted by a vinyl ether functional group. The polymer may be, for example, a Novolak resin partially substituted by a vinyl ether functional group or poly(hydroxystyrene) partially substituted by a vinyl ether functional group.

A bearing apparatus for a vehicle driving wheel which prevents generation of stick-slip noise as well as fretting wear to improve durability of the bearing apparatus has an outer member (10) formed with double row outer raceway surfaces (10a, 10a) on its inner circumferential surface. An inner member (1, 27) is formed with double row inner raceway surface (2a (24a), 3a) opposite to the double row outer raceway surfaces (10a, 10a). Double row rolling elements (6) are freely rollably maintained between the outer and inner raceway surfaces (10a, 10a; 2a (24a), 3a), respectively, of the outer and inner member (10; 1, 27). A constant velocity universal joint (11, 26), for torque transmission, is inserted into the inner member (10; 1, 27). The constant velocity universal joint abuts and is axially separably connected to the inner member via a nut (19). The end surface (13a, 23a, 28a) of a shoulder (13, 28) of an outer joint member (15, 29) and an end surface of the inner member (1, 27) are previously formed so that these end surfaces line contact with each other at a vertex formed by inclined surfaces on the end of the inner member (1,27).

Disclosed is a metal-sulfur electrode for a lithium-sulfur battery and a method for preparing the same. More particularly, a metal-sulfur electrode for a lithium-sulfur battery is prepared by coating a slurry mixture including sulfur, a conductive material and a binder as an electrode active material on a metal electrode and drying the same while applying an electric field such that the conductive material is aligned adequately so as to provide maximize efficiency during repeated charging and discharging when used in the anode of the lithium-sulfur battery.

Seal sections, which support first and second piston rods, are provided on inner circumferential surfaces of first and second cover members of a cylinder mechanism. A lubricant is supplied via supply passages and oil supply ports to first oil-retaining members, which are installed in installation grooves provided in the seal sections. The lubricant, which has characteristics different from those of an operation oil used for driving a piston of the cylinder mechanism, is retained by the first oil-retaining members. Further, the lubricant is supplied to clearances formed between the first and second cover members and the first and second piston rods, thereby forming an oil film.

A straight tube LED lamp includes a substrate on which semiconductor light-emitting elements are mounted in longitudinal direction, a long metal chassis with a semi-circular cross section, to mount the substrate in a chord portion of the semi-circle, a resin sheet interposed between the chassis and the substrate, a translucent element contacting the chassis to form a circle, made from a resin or glass through which light beams from semiconductor light-emitting elements are transmitted, cap elements to cover both ends of the chassis and the translucent element and connectable to a lamp fitting, and a power supply board on which an electronic component for AC-DC conversion to supply current to the semiconductor light-emitting elements is mounted, contained in the chassis. The resin sheet is made from different materials at least at an overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion of the power supply board and the substrate in longitudinal direction.

A cutting head mounting and supporting ring assembly having an interlocking joint arrangement for mounting the cutting head on a food slicing machine. The ring assembly includes a support ring having a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radially extending flange segments having a flange end portion inclined relative to the axis thereof, and a mounting ring having a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially extending protrusions having a protrusion end portion inclined relative to the axis thereof. The flange and protrusion surfaces of the flange segments and the protrusions are complementary shaped and arranged to mutually engage face-to-face to define scarf type joint connections when they are interdigited.

In an apparatus that has a main power supply and a sub-power supply. In a standby state, the main power supply is turned on for an incoming call for facsimile communication, while the main power supply is not turned on for an incoming call for speech communication. Therefore, the unnecessary turning on and off of the main power supply can be prevented. When the DRPD (Distinguish Ringing Pattern Detect) service is provided, a plurality of telephone numbers are assigned to a single communication line, and a plurality of call signals whose pattern differ are employed for receiving calls. When one of these telephone numbers is used for facsimile and another telephone number is used for a telephone, an incoming call can be identified as being either for facsimile or for telephone by distinguishing between the patterns of the call signals. When the pattern of the call signal is for facsimile, the main power supply is turned on to perform data communication. When the pattern of the call signal is for telephone, the main power supply is not turned on.

A control device for a vehicular drive system including (a) a differential portion having a differential mechanism operable to distribute an output of an engine to a first electric motor and a power transmitting member, and a second electric motor disposed in a power transmitting path between the power transmitting member and a drive wheel of a vehicle, (b) a transmission portion which constitutes a part of the power transmitting path, (c) a coupling device operable to place a power transmitting path between the engine and the drive wheel, selectively in a power-transmitting state or a power-cutoff state, and (d) a shift lever operable between a drive position for the coupling device to select the power-transmitting state, and a non-drive position for the coupling device to select the power-cutoff state, the control device including an engine-speed control device for controlling engine speed N_E so as not to exceed a predetermined engine speed value N_E′ while the shift lever is placed in the non-drive position, so that the coupling device is engaged while engine torque T_E is reduced as a result of an operation of the shift lever from the non-drive position to the drive position, whereby the durability of the coupling device is improved.

An optical compensation film including: a support; an alignment film layer including a polymer having a radical polymerizable group; and an optical anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound, laminated in this order, wherein a content of a polymerization initiator capable of reacting with the radical polymerizable group and/or a compound capable of reacting with the radical polymerizable group and having two or more vinyl groups is 0.05% by mass to 30.0% by mass with respect to a total solid content of the polymer having a radical polymerizable group contained in the alignment film layer; and the like.

The present invention discloses a polyester/cotton interwoven fabric dyeing and fishing process, which comprises cold stacking, washing and blanching, shaping, mercerizing, ammonia nitrogen emission-free environmental-protection type dispersing reactive printing, persistent moisture absorption and sweat releasing finishing, and stentering and anti-shrinking treating. According to the present invention, in the ammonia nitrogen emission-free environmental-protection type dispersing reactive printing, the color fixation method that baking soda and urea are added to a printing slurry after printing drying in the traditional process are abandoned, only a dye, a paste and other materials are added to a printing slurry, an alkali agent and gravy salt rapid steam color fixation method is adopted after printing drying to make color fixation of a reactive dye, the whole process does not adopt urea as the additive, no ammonia nitrogen exists in the discharged water, and characteristics of environmental protection and energy saving are provided; and the persistent moisture absorption and sweat releasing finishing process adopts a nano-scale moisture absorption rapid drying agent and a washing resistance fixing agent, and the used additives and fibers are subjected to cross-linking after high temperature baking so as to significantly increase function persistence.

The object of the present invention is to prevent damages of a vibration isolating rubber and cracks in a welded portion of a sub-frame when press-fitting a sub-frame mount.

The sub-frame mount 1 comprises an outer cylinder 2, an inner cylinder 2 and the vibration isolating rubber 4 connecting these outer and inner cylinders. A small diameter portion 10 and a large diameter portion 11 are provided on a lateral wall of a barrel portion of the outer cylinder 2. Between the small diameter portion 10 and the large diameter portion 11 is formed a step-like boundary portion 12. The height in the axial direction of the boundary portion 12 changes in the circumferential direction and has a substantially mountain-like shape with a top 12a projecting in the press fitting direction. A contact area of the large diameter portion 11 contacting a mounting hole 21 of the sub-frame 20 is increased in accordance with an amount of the press fitting. Therefore, when the sub-frame mount 1 is press-fitted into the mounting hole 21 of the sub-frame 20, the press fitting load is gradually increased thereby preventing the rapid rise of the press fitting load.