Kojima Press Industry Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Kojima Industries Corporation

Uchihama Kasei Co., Ltd.

Ulvac, Inc.

Kaoru Ito

Masumi Noguchi

Hirotoshi Matsui

Eiji Ito

Yoshinori Shibata

Kuniaki Hasegawa

Kenichi Mitsui

Masaki Koike

Tetsushi Suzuki

Isao Tada

Shigeki Yasuhara

Munetaka Hayakawa

Yoshiki Shimoda

Nobutaka Takeuchi

Yoshihiro Ogura

Tadanobu Ota

Masanobu Fukukawa

Takane Suzuki

Nobuhiro Hayashi

Hideaki Tanaka

Hagane Irikura

Hiroki Kurokawa

Minoru Yonebayashi

Hiroyasu Miyamoto

Hiroyuki Kawakubo

Tooru Kitamura

Toshimitsu Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto

Naoki Goda

Akito Terashima

Sohta Norikane

Yasuhiko Takahashi

Hiroyuki Ikeda

Makoto Shimomura

A battery includes a case, an internal terminal, an external terminal, and an insulator. The internal terminal includes an internal terminal base and a shaft. The internal terminal base is disposed inside the case, with the insulator interposed between the case and the internal terminal base. The external terminal includes an external terminal base and a boss. The external terminal base is disposed outside the case, with the insulator interposed between the external terminal base and the case. The boss extends from the external terminal base. The boss receives the shaft of the internal terminal therethrough. The boss is pressure-welded to the shaft of the internal terminal.

Battery and battery manufacturing method

Provided is a boot seal for a variable compression ratio engine having an inner layer free from tears or creases. The boot seal comprises a boot body having a cylinder-attaching part, a crankcase-attaching part and a connecting part for connecting these parts, and a rigid plate disposed in at least one of the cylinder-attaching part and the crankcase-attaching part and having a through hole. The boot body comprises an outer layer formed by injection molding a rubber material, and an inner layer formed of fluorine-containing rubber. An injection gate for the outer layer is located at a portion of the outer layer opposing the rigid plate. Both an outer surface and an inner surface of at least a portion of the rigid plate having the through hole are covered with the rubber material supplied from the injection gate.

Boot seal for variable compression ratio engine

A decorated resin molded article that can secure a high durability and can represent a sufficiently realistic metal texture in appearance is provided as follows. A metal thin film is directly formed on a design surface of a substrate by either a physical vapor deposition method or a chemical vapor deposition method to provide a metallic decoration. Additionally, a topcoat layer is formed with a thickness of 10 to 40 &#x3bc;m on the metal thin film. The topcoat layer comprises a transparent coating film having an adhesive property to both of the substrate and the metal thin film.

Decorated resin molded article and method for producing the same

An apparatus is provided that can stably produce a laminated body including a vapor-deposited polymer film having a predetermined composition and thickness on a film substrate. The apparatus includes: a film substrate supply meansthat supplies a film substrateon an outer peripheral surface of a rotary drumin a vacuum chamber; a plurality of blowoff memberspositioned around the rotary drum, each of the plurality of blowoff members including a vapor outletopening inside the vacuum chamberto the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drumand an inner space constituting a deposition chamber; and at least one monomer vapor supply meansarranged to supply plural kinds of monomer vapor into the deposition chamber and blowoff the plural kinds of monomer vapor from the vapor outlet of each of the plurality of blowoff members.

Apparatus for producing laminated body

A film capacitor element including a base dielectric film layer, a vapor-deposition metal film layerformed on the base dielectric film layerand consisting of a first film portionand a second film portionthat are spaced apart from each other by a margin portion, and a dielectric covering film layerwhich is formed integrally on the second film portionby vapor-deposition polymerization or coating and which has a covering portionwhich fills the margin portionand covers an entire area of an end face of the second film portionon the side of the margin portion. The first film portionincluding a non-covered portionwhich is not covered by the dielectric covering film layer

Film capacitor element, film capacitor, and method of producing the film capacitor element

A stacked film capacitor including a resin protective film having excellent durability is provided which can stably secure desired properties. The stacked film capacitor includes a capacitor element including a plurality of dielectric layers, and a plurality of vapor-deposited metal film layers. Each dielectric layer and each vapor-deposited metal film layer are stacked with each other so as to be arranged alternately. The stacked film capacitor further includes a pair of external electrodes provided on opposing side surfaces of the capacitor element, and at least one resin protective film formed on at least one side surfaces other than the side surfaces on which the external electrodes are formed, in which the at least one resin protective film is provided by deposition polymerization.

Stacked film capacitor and method of producing the same

A film capacitor is provided which has a smaller size and improved capacity while securing a sufficient withstand voltage. The film capacitor comprising a basic elementcontaining a plurality of dielectric layers and at least one vapor-deposited metal film layer, where the plurality of dielectric layers consisting of a resin film layerand at least one vapor-deposited polymer film layer, and the at least one vapor-deposited polymer film layeris formed on at least one of the resin film layerand the at least one vapor-deposited metal film layer 14, 14

Film capacitor and method of producing the same

A substrate supporting device for forming a coating film having a maximally even and necessary thickness with a sufficiently strong adhesiveness and a good film quality on a substrate, and a sputtering apparatus including such a substrate supporting device. The substrate supporting device for supporting a substrate on which a coating film is formed by sputtering is disposed in a vacuum chamber so as to be opposed to a sputtering target. The substrate supporting device is rotatable around a first rotation axis by a first driving mechanism and is rotatable around a second rotation axis by a second driving mechanism.

Substrate supporting device and sputtering apparatus including the same

A sputtering apparatus for forming a coating film made of a metallic film on a coating surface of a substrate by sputtering to have such a film thickness that gradually increases or gradually decreases from its one end side to the other end side. The apparatus comprising at least one supporting means supporting at least one substrate such that a coating surface thereof is opposed to an emission surface of a sputtering target at an angle, and at least one shielding member for preventing part of sputtering particles emitted from the emission surface from reaching the coating surface. The at least one shielding member being disposed in the vacuum chamber so as to be positioned in a space between the coating surface of the at least one substrate and the emission surface of the sputtering target.

Sputtering apparatus and method for forming coating film by sputtering

An oil return passage that is open at its upper end to a cam chamber and is open at its lower end to a crank chamber is formed to extend from a cylinder head to a cylinder block. A heat exchanger having a double-pipe structure is housed in the oil return passage. Lubricating oil fed from the cam chamber is passed through an oil-collection outer passage of the heat exchanger, and separated oil fed from a separator case of a PCV system is passed through an oil-collection inner passage of the heat exchanger, so that heat of the lubricating oil is imparted to the separated oil. Thus, water contained in the separated oil is evaporated, and the amount of water flowing into an oil pan can be reduced.

Oil collecting structure of blow-by gas recirculation system and oil collecting device having the structure

A pedestrian protection apparatus for a vehicle, including a plate member which is disposed at a front face of the vehicle, which includes front and rear portions, and which is fixed at the rear portion to the vehicle with at least a leading end part of the front portion protruded from the front face of the vehicle, the apparatus being arranged to sweep a leg portion of a pedestrian, thereby protecting the leg portion, wherein the leading end part includes at least one horizontally extending portion and a plurality of vertically extending portions each having an anterior surface substantially orthogonal to a horizontal plane, the horizontally extending portion and the vertically extending portions being formed integrally with the leading end part so as to be alternately disposed in the frontward and backward direction of the vehicle and extend in a staircase-like form.

Pedestrian protection apparatus for vehicle

There is provided an oil separator for blowby gas exhibiting excellent oil separation performance in a stable manner. In a common flow path section of a gas flow passage in which the blowby gas flows and an oil passage provided with a bottom of the common flow path section where oil that has been separated from blowby gas by separation means provided midway along the gas flow passage, the width of a part of the common flow path section is regulated so as to become gradually smaller towards the bottom of the common flow path section, and a flow passage regulating section, for making part of the common flow path section that has the width regulated a restricted section, is provided so as to extend upwards from the bottom of the common flow path section.

Oil separator for blowby gas

It is an object of the present invention to provide a shock absorbing structure for a vehicle that enables a simple and appropriate tuning of a load displacement characteristic, so that a desired amount of collision energy can be absorbed. In the present invention, each of two side walls which is integrally provided with top wall, to which a shock is applied, has a rectangular wave shape corrugated at a plurality of corrugated sections positioned to be opposed to each other in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the shock is applied. In addition, outer flanges are integrally formed on an end section of each of the side walls, and a slit extending in the direction in which the shock is applied is formed on each of the corrugated sections.

Shock absorbing structure for vehicle, and attachment structure for the same

A pedestrian protection apparatus disposed at a front of a vehicle for protecting a pedestrian in the event of a collision between the pedestrian and a front end of the vehicle, the apparatus including: a leg sweep member which is disposed at a lower part of the front end of the vehicle so as to protrude frontward for sweeping a leg portion of the pedestrian; and a fixing mechanism which fixes the leg sweep member to a structural member of the vehicle and which releases the fixation of the leg sweep member to the structural member when an object including the pedestrian advances, by an amount that exceeds a prescribed reference amount, with respect to the vehicle in a backward direction of the vehicle from a position of the front end of the vehicle against which the object has hit upon the collision.

In a supercharged engine, a supercharger and a throttle body disposed midway in an intake passage are located away from an engine block. A blow-by gas passage constituting a PCV apparatus is connected between a portion of the intake passage located on the upstream side of a throttle valve and a crankcase. The blow-by gas passage returns the blow-by gas collected in the crankcase to the intake passage. A cooling water passage extending from the engine block is connected to a radiator. A water passage extending from the radiator is connected to the engine block via the throttle body, which water passage encloses the blow-by gas passage in an intermediate portion thereof.

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Kaoru Ito