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An electric vehicle battery recharge-replacement system has four major parts: (1) a rechargeable battery pack consisting of a number of separate sub-packs with an identical dimension and energy capacity, (2) a same number of battery sub-pack compartments on an electric vehicle, and all sub-pack compartments having an identical dimension, (3) a recharging array consisting of a number of individual recharging compartments stacking together, and each recharging compartment having a dimension same as the vehicle sub-pack compartment, and (4) some battery sub-pack holding cases, each of which having an identical dimension. With this system, battery pack replacement can be realized by replacing drained battery sub-packs in an electric vehicle's compartments with recharged battery sub-packs in a recharging array's compartments. In this system, each battery sup-pack can further consist of two to four identical sub-sub-packs, which are even lighter and easier to handle.

A purge apparatus for replacing a gas atmosphere in a purge object vessel by a purge gas through a port provided on a bottom face of the purge object vessel is disclosed. The purge apparatus includes a purge unit attached to a table that receives the purge object vessel, and a purge nozzle body including a port contacting portion provided on an upper side of the purge nozzle body and an attachment object portion provided on a lower side of the purge nozzle body. The purge unit has an attachment portion and the port contacting portion of the purge nozzle body is configured to contact the port of the purge object vessel. The attachment object portion of the purge nozzle body removably engages with the attachment portion of the purge unit so that the purge nozzle body is removably attached to the purge unit.

A repeller structure is provided in a plasma generating chamber of an ion source facing a cathode that emits electrons for ionizing a source gas in the plasma generating chamber to generate a plasma. The repeller structure reflects the ions toward the cathode. The repeller structure includes a sputtering target that is sputtered by the plasma to emit predetermined ions, the sputtering target including a through hole that connects a sputtering surface and a back surface of the sputtering target; and an electrode body that is inserted in the through hole, the electrode body including a repeller surface that is exposed to the sputtering surface side through the through hole.

A method for forming a film on a conductive substrate, comprising immersing a substrate having a conductive portion in a solution comprising a metal ion ceramic precursor for the film and a peroxide; applying a voltage potential to the conductive portion with respect to a counter electrode in the solution, sufficient to protect the conductive portion from corrosion by the solution, and drive formation of a film on the substrate, controlling a pH of the solution while limiting a production of hydrogen by electrolysis of the solution proximate to the conductive portion; and maintaining the voltage potential for a sufficient duration to produce a film on the conductive portion. An electrode may be formed over the film to produce an electrical device. The film may be, for example, insulating, dielectric, resistive, semiconductive, magnetic, or ferromagnetic.

An electronic apparatus (1) including an apparatus main body and a casing (2) for housing the main body, and further including, inside of the apparatus, a cooling unit (6) that circulates a liquid cooling medium to cool components constituting the main body includes a cooling medium storage section (62) that is provided inside of the casing (2) and stores the cooling medium; a first tube system (641) that guides the cooling medium from the cooling medium storage section (62) to the components to be cooled; a second tube system (642) that sends back the cooling medium having been used for cooling the components to be cooled to the cooling medium storage section (62); and a medium circulator (63) that is disposed on the first tube system (641) or second (642) in order to circulate the cooling medium through the cooling medium storage section (62), first tube system (641), and second tube system (642). Tube joints (6412) (6422) that is exposed to the outside of the casing (2), to which a cooling medium replacement cartridge (7) used for replacing the cooling medium in the cooling medium storage section with a new cooling medium is connected are provided in the first tube system (641) and / or second tube system (642).

A low profile backlit graphic display device enables a user to display an illuminated graphic hung from the user's neck. The device comprises a housing, a light source assembly, and a number of optical element panels. The housing comprises housing edging, an assembly-receiving cavity, and a coupler-receiving aperture. The housing edging defines a panel-receiving section in anterior adjacency to the assembly-receiving cavity. The light source assembly is receivable in the assembly-receiving cavity. The panels may include a reflector panel, a light guide panel, and an interchangeable graphic panel. The panels are positionable in anterior adjacency to the assembly-receiving cavity within a panel-receiving section. The graphic panel is positionable in anterior adjacency to the light guide panel for illuminating a graphic by way of panel-guided light. A lanyard assembly is attachable to the coupler-receiving aperture and wearable about the neck for enabling the user to display a neck-hung illuminated graphic.

Disclosed herein is an intracorporeally indwelling device for embolization, which is capable of being placed surly in an appointed site, capable of permiting surely performing a replacing operation of the intracorporeally indwelling device arranged once, and thus has high safety and high operating ability. The intracorporeally indwelling device for embolization of the invention comprises a flexible coiled body and an axial extension-controlling member having specified tensile break strength and provided in the interior of the coiled body so as to extend in an axial direction of the coiled body. The axial extension-controlling member is made up of a wire material having tensile break strength of at least 700 N / mm2 in the axial direction of the coiled body and a diameter of at most 25 μm.

A rail structure for doors comprises a track rail body (3) which supports the door wheels (4) which are attached to a door (6) and freely roll on the track rail body (3), a load support member (2) which is extended along the track rail body (3) and supports the track rail body (3) from the bottom side, a cushion member (7) which is disposed between the track rail body (3) and the load support member (2) and absorbs the vibration from the track rail body (3). A convexo-concave fitting part (8) which performs convexo-concave fitting is formed on the bottom surface of the track rail body (3) and on the upper surface of the load support member (2) via the cushion member (7). Purposes of the invention are to prevent vibrations caused by the running of the door wheels (4) from being transmitted to building, and to improve the efficiency of replacement operations for the track rail body (3), and to lower the cost.

A trimmer head, comprising: a casing 21, 22, a supporting device 31, 32 for a cutting wire spool, which supporting device (31, 32) is arranged within the casing (21, 22) and movable between an engagement position, wherein it is rotatingly solid with the casing (21, 22), and a free position, wherein it is not rotatingly solid with the casing (21, 22). The head further comprises coupling means 41,42, which are so configured as to make the casing (21, 22) and the supporting device (31, 32) rotatingly solid with one another in the engagement position, engagement means (43) which are so configured as to allow displacement of the supporting device (31, 32) from the free position to the engagement position and release means (51, 52) configured for moving the supporting device (31) from the engagement position to the free position, said release means (51, 52) being activated under the effect of the centrifugal force due to rotation of the trimmer head. The supporting device 31 comprises a lower disk (31) and an upper disk (32) which are independent of one another.

A system motherboard having expansibility and variability includes a first circuit board provided with a system chipset and a second circuit board provided with a CPU, and the first circuit board and the second circuit board are electrically connected by a connector, so that the system motherboard has greater expansibility and flexibility in replacing components on the system motherboard. Further, when the first circuit board is replaced with a new one, it may be conveniently tested by using the second circuit board.

A cartridge changer (41) is composed of a swing arm (48) with a cartridge gripper (48B) for gripping a paint cartridge (24), and an arcuate moving portion (46) for putting the swing arm (48) in swinging movements in a horizontal plane. The cartridge changer (41) is adapted to pick up a replenished paint cartridge (24) on the mount deck (42) by the cartridge gripper (48B) and transfer the swing arm (48) to a changing position “O” by the arcuate moving portion (46). By the operation, a used paint cartridge (24′) will be replaced by the replenished paint cartridge (24) between the mount deck (42) and a common body (15) which is located in the changing position “O” of the atomizing head changing and washing device (31).

A rail structure for doors comprises a track rail body (3) which supports the door wheels (4) which are attached to a door (6) and freely roll on the track rail body (3), a load support member (2) which is extended along the track rail body (3) and supports the track rail body (3) from the bottom side, a cushion member (7) which is disposed between the track rail body (3) and the load support member (2) and absorbs the vibration from the track rail body (3). A convexo-concave fitting part (8) which performs convexo-concave fitting is formed on the bottom surface of the track rail body (3) and on the upper surface of the load support member (2) via the cushion member (7). Purposes of the invention are to prevent vibrations caused by the running of the door wheels (4) from being transmitted to building, and to improve the efficiency of replacement operations for the track rail body (3), and to lower the cost.

A printer includes a set cover pivotally movably provided on a carriage. The cover can be set in a closed state in which the cover presses a head of the cartridge housed in the housing portion and an open state in which the cover opens the housing portion when the cartridge is replaced. A release lever is subjected to a bias force so as to protrude from an inner wall surface of the housing portion. The release lever is movable against the bias force. The release lever comes into contact with an end of the cartridge which faces the bottom surface when the cartridge is inserted into the housing portion. The release lever contacts the rear surface of the cartridge housed in the housing portion. The bias force is stronger when the cover is in the open state than when the cover is in the closed state.

In a front structure of a motorcycle body, a meter unit is installed in such a manner that it can be shifted between a normal position and a bulb replacing position. The position of the meter unit is set such that, at the normal position, the lower end of the meter unit is lower than the upper end line of a bulb mounting and removing portion disposed in the rear surface of a head lamp unit and, at the bulb replacing position, the meter unit lower rear portion is higher than the upper end line H1 of the bulb mounting and removing portion. The meter unit is mounted directly on the head lamp unit and, when viewed from the side surface of the motorcycle body, the meter unit is superimposed on top of a cowling brace which is used to fix a front cowling.

In a pressure-regulating valve which supplies a functional liquid from a functional liquid tank to a functional liquid droplet ejection head, using, as a reference regulating pressure, atmospheric pressure which a diaphragm receives, a valve-disc energizing spring, which energizes a valve disc for opening and closing a communication passage communicating a primary chamber and a secondary chamber, is configured so as to be separated from a housing main body along with a lid body.

Rear wheel tires of a vehicle body are spaced apart from each other in the vehicle width direction. A foreign object removing device is provided between an outer tire and an inner tire of the rear wheels on one side of the vehicle for removing foreign objects between the tires. The foreign object removing device includes a bar-shaped member inserted in a suspended state between the tires, and a shoe provided in a lower end side of the bar-shaped member to collide with foreign objects such as earth and sand, and stones getting in between the tires for flicking out the foreign objects from between the tires. The shoe is replaceably attached to the lower end side of the bar-shaped member by using a bolt. In a case where the shoe wears down, only the shoe is replaced.

The present invention is to provide to provide a measuring and printing device by which an operation for replacing a label paper can be performed from the front face of the device and a desired size of the operation screen (display operation unit) can be employed independently of a size of a printer. The measuring and printing device comprises a measuring unit in which a measuring tray is disposed over load cells, and a printing unit for printing prescribed particulars such as the value measured by the measuring unit, wherein the printing unit is disposed substantially at the center of the device and a display operation unit is disposed at the front side of the device, and when the display operation unit has opened, the printing unit is exposed such that a paper can be replaced.

A machine tool includes a spindle equipped with a workpiece gripping portion arranged so as to face an operator side, the spindle being configured to rotatably drive a workpiece gripped by the workpiece gripping portion, and a tool mount equipped with a rotary member supporting a plurality of tools in a rotatably indexable manner about an axis parallel to an axis of the spindle. The tool mount is arranged at a tool mount installation portion formed to be positioned on the operator side in a manner such that the rotary member faces a workpiece gripping portion side.

The present invention provides an automotive alternator enabling a brush replacement operation to be improved by making a cap covering an opening portion for brush replacement formed in a case insertable to simplify removal and replacement of the cap.A brush holder through which a brush insertion aperture is disposed and into a head portion of which a cover is fitted is disposed inside a case such that an aperture direction of the brush insertion aperture is perpendicular to an axial direction of a shaft, and a brush is disposed so as to be held inside the brush insertion aperture and slide in contact with a slip ring fixed to the shaft. An opening portion for brush replacement is formed in a portion of the case facing the cover, and a cap is insertably mounted to this opening portion.

A projector unit is disclosed wherein a replacing operation of a light source is simplified and the quality of an image can be assured advantageously. A locking mechanism is formed from engaging pins, engaging pawls and a spring. The engaging pins are provided on a housing portion of a body section. The engaging pawls are each supported at a bearing portion intermediate in an extending direction thereof for rocking motion on a light source section housing by a pivot. The engaging pawls have engaging grooves provided thereon for engaging with the engaging pins in a state wherein mating portions of the light source section housing and the body section housing are mated with each other. The spring extends between a rear face of an intermediate divisional member of the light source section housing and a connecting piece of the engaging pawl.