Tsubakimoto Chain Company

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Ngk Insulators, Inc.

Denso Corporation

Hiroki Ishida

Nobuyuki Fujimoto

Toshihiro Hosokawa

Yoshiaki Sugimoto

Takashi Nakagawa

Masao Maruyama

Hironori Takahashi

Masaru Morimoto

Masatoshi Sonoda

Aizoh Kubo

Tsuyoshi Ito

Keisuke Omori

Toshihiko Aoki

Ichiro Shibata

Akiji Hayashi

Makoto Fujiwara

Toshimitsu Sakai

Shunji Sakura

Hiroshi Horie

Tatsuo Nagata

Takayuki Morimoto

Nobuo Kitao

Shiro Inoue

Sachihiko Maeda

Junta Takasu

Masashi Nakamura

Hirofumi Miki

Syunji Sakura

Takahisa Andoh

Yasuhide Nakamura

Shigenobu Sugasawa

Junichi Tani

Ryutaro Nakamura

Satoshi Nakatou

Shinji Hishioka

A fluid heating component including: a pillar-shaped member made of ceramics and formed with through channels through which a fluid passes, and a conductive coating layer disposed on at least a part of a circumferential surface of the pillar-shaped member, wherein the conductive coating layer is disposed on coats the whole circumference of a cut surface of the pillar-shaped member in a state where the conducive coating layer is electrically connected, in the cut surface of the pillar-shaped member which is perpendicular to a passing direction of the fluid.

Fluid heating component, and fluid heating component complex

A fluid heating component including: a porous body made of ceramics and formed with through channels through which a fluid passes, and a conductive coating layer disposed on a through channel surface of at least a part of each through channel, wherein the conductive coating layer is electrically connected, and is continuous.

Fluid heating component, fluid heating component complex, and manufacturing method of fluid heating component

A method for producing a silicon carbide sintered body, comprising adding water to a raw material mixture containing silicon carbide powder, at least one binder, and optionally at least one carbon source other than the silicon carbide and the at least one binder, and subjecting the raw material mixture to kneading, molding, and drying in this order, to obtain a dried body; heating the dried body to remove organic substances from the dried body to obtain a degreased body; and firing the degreased body in an inert atmosphere to obtain a silicon carbide sintered body. The method comprises controlling an expansion/shrinkage rate of the sintered body by adjusting at least one of (1) an amount of the at least one carbon source in the raw material mixture, (2) an amount of the at least one binder in the raw material mixture, and (3) a degreasing rate.

Method for producing silicon carbide sintered body

A battery includes a battery case; an outside member that is arranged on an outer portion of the battery case, and is made of an Al&#x2014;Mg alloy or Al&#x2014;Mg&#x2014;Si alloy; a collector member made of pure aluminum, which has i) an extending portion that extends from within the battery case, passes through a first through-hole provided in the battery case and a second through-hole in the outside member, and protrudes out of the battery case, and ii) a crimped portion that spreads out toward an outside of the second through-hole from the extending portion, and circularly covers a periphery of the second through-hole in the outside member; as well as a bead that electrically connects an outer peripheral edge portion of the crimped portion to the outside member; and an additional bead that is positioned farther toward a radial inside of the crimped portion than the bead.

Battery and manufacturing method for battery

The invention provides a chain and a chain guide plate that suppress occurrence of noise during chain traveling while attaining a reduction in costs and also attaining space saving. A chain includes first plate rows and second late rows. Each of the first plate rows includes a guide plate including a guide slide contact section for coming into slide contact with an inner side guide. The guide slide contact section extends in a chain longitudinal direction to be asymmetrical relative to an imaginary center line. During guiding by the inner side guide, lines drawn by the guide slide contact sections of a plurality of the guide plates are continuous in the chain longitudinal direction.

Chain and chain guide plate

According to the method for manufacturing electrode sheets, in a first cutting step, an original sheet, including a belt-shaped metal foil and an electrode material coated thereon in a lengthwise direction to form a plurality of coated portions spaced at a predetermined gap, is cut at a location between the coated portions. In a pressing step, the original sheet strips having been cut in the first cutting step are pressed. In this case, the original sheet strips that are pressed by the rolling device are independent from each other. Therefore, the effect produced in rolling of the coated portions remains within each of the original sheet strips. In addition, distortions occurring in the original sheet strips can be prevented from affecting each other and the occurrence of wrinkles can be inhibited.

Method for manufacturing electrode sheets and apparatus therefor

A wear resistant, heat resistant conveyor chain comprising a series of links, each having a heat resistant roller rotatably fitted onto a bush between inner plates. The links are interconnected in the longitudinal direction of the chain by outer plates, and connecting pins rotatably inserted into the bush. A wear resistant, heat resistant sleeve-shaped spacer protrudes beyond the end surfaces of the heat resistant rollers toward the right and left inner plates to eliminate any sliding contact between the end surface of the heat resistant roller and the inner side surface of the inner plate.

Wear resistant, heat resistant conveyor chain

In an oil-free roller chain, the inner faces of the outer link plates have recesses that receive the ends of bushings, and the inner faces of the inner link plates have recesses that receive the ends of rollers surrounding the bushings. Each such recess is formed by punching, so that the outer surface of each plate has a bulged portion opposite each recess. The diameters of the bulged portions are greater than the diameters of the corresponding recesses. The bushing can have an oil passage located midway between its ends and serving as an oil reservoir supplying oil to the gap between the bushing and the roller and between the bushing and a connecting pin.

Oil-free chain

An oil-free chain has bushings which protrude from the outer surfaces of the inner link plates into which they are press-fit, and extend into bushing supporting bores formed in the inner surfaces of the outer link plates of the chain. These bushing supporting bores are formed by a pressing operation which produces offsets in portions of the outer plate, so that, as the bushing supporting bores are formed in the inner surfaces of the outer plates, bosses are simultaneously formed on the outer surfaces. The connecting pins of the chain are press-fit into pin holes in these bosses. The bushing supporting bores are formed without removal of material by machining, and therefore the strength of the outer plates is not compromised.

A storage conveyor that secures a number of stored workpieces while saving space is provided. When a sprocket on a driving side is driven to rotate in a forward/reverse direction by a chain drive motor, opposing bend suppression members between a pair of chains are successively engaged/disengaged, and an opposing portion between the pair of chains is extended/retracted with respect to a workpiece conveyance surface. Thus, workpieces are passed between the workpiece conveyance surface and workpiece receivers. Consequently, the workpieces can be stored in a vertical direction (up-down direction), making it possible to secure the number of stored workpieces while saving space.

Storage conveyor

In a chain transmission in which a roller chain transmits power from a driving sprocket to one or more driven sprockets, the sprocket teeth are shaped so that at a location radially outward from the sprocket pitch circle, the distance between the front surface of each sprocket tooth to a radial reference line from the sprocket center through the center of the tooth root, is at least as great as the distance from the centerline to the front tooth surface at the pitch circle. The tooth faces merge smoothly with the tooth gap bottom, the sprocket root diameter is smaller than the root diameter according to ISO standards, and the radius of the arcuate tooth gap bottom is greater than the radius of the chain roller.

Chain transmission

In a slat conveyor, slats for supporting conveyed articles and personnel extend between two side-by-side, spaced, endless roller chains engaged with driving sprockets at one end of the conveying path and driven sprockets at the other end. At a location radially outward from the pitch circle, the distance between the front surface of the sprocket teeth to the tooth center line is at least as great as the distance from the centerline to the front surface at the pitch circle. The tooth faces merge smoothly with the tooth gap bottom, and the root diameter is smaller than the root diameter according to ISO standards.

Conveyance system

To provide a compact lifter device, which can attain a work-piece's lifting/lowering operation in a stable supporting state and can reduce the parts number and an assembly load. A lifter devicein which a pair of work-piece lifting chainsrespectively fed movably forward and backward by a pair of regularly/reversely rotatable driving sprocketswhile being sandwiched by the sprockets includes flexing suppression membersdisposed oppositely to each other, and each of these flexing suppression memberscomprises a number of blocksdisposed at mounting intervals of two times the chain pitch P on a drawing side of the work-piece lifting/lowering chainand a lifting/lowering support barof a length corresponding to a chain's upright state, disposed on a feeding side continued to the drawing side of the work-piece lifting/lowering chainso that the flexing suppression membersare engaged with each other to lift or lower a work-piece in a chain's upright state of the fed chain.

Lifter device

A load timer mechanism of a fuel injection pump includes a governor shaft, which is secured to a housing, and a governor sleeve, which is axially slidably supported around the governor shaft. The governor shaft includes a fuel relief passage, which is communicated with a low pressure side of the pump and has an outer opening in an outer peripheral surface of the governor shaft, and a first annular groove, which is recessed in the outer peripheral surface of the governor shaft such that the first annular groove is axially displaced from the outer opening. The governor sleeve includes a port, which extends between an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface of the governor sleeve, and a second annular groove, which is recessed in the inner peripheral surface of the governor sleeve such that the second annular groove is axially displaced from the port.

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroki Ishida