Abstract: The float liquid level meter indicator includes rotatable slats; a supporting metal fixture not obstructing rotation of the rotatable slats, the supporting metal fixture having an opening for observing a state of the rotatable slats and rotation shaft supporting hole pairs for supporting the rotation shafts provided on left and right of the rotatable slats, the hole pairs being disposed at equal intervals in an up-down direction, at least one side of the rotation shaft supporting hole pairs being of a cutout shape or an elongated hole shape in a front-rear direction; a housing for attaching to the float-liquid level meter, having a groove which prevents the rotatable slats inserted in the up-down direction and the supporting metal fixture from falling off in a front-rear direction, and having an opening for observing the state of the rotatable slats; and a lid for avoiding the supporting metal fixture from falling out from the housing.

Abstract: A bid-price determination apparatus includes an acquirer, an extractor, a predictor, a determiner, and an output device. The acquirer acquires a price history of a product before a current time in an electric power continuous session. The extractor extracts, from the acquired price history, a first feature quantity which is a feature quantity of the price history of the product. The predictor predicts, based on the extracted first feature quantity, a second feature quantity which is a feature quantity of price changes of the product after the current time. The determiner determines, based on the predicted second feature quantity, a transaction standard value which is a standard for a transaction of the product after the current time. The output device outputs the determined transaction standard value.

Abstract: The float liquid level meter indicator includes rotatable slats; a supporting metal fixture not obstructing rotation of the rotatable slats, the supporting metal fixture having an opening for observing a state of the rotatable slats and rotation shaft supporting hole pairs for supporting the rotation shafts provided on left and right of the rotatable slats, the hole pairs being disposed at equal intervals in an up-down direction, at least one side of the rotation shaft supporting hole pairs being of a cutout shape or an elongated hole shape in a front-rear direction; a housing for attaching to the float-liquid level meter, having a groove which prevents the rotatable slats inserted in the up-down direction and the supporting metal fixture from falling off in a front-rear direction, and having an opening for observing the state of the rotatable slats; and a lid for avoiding the supporting metal fixture from falling out from the housing.

Abstract: An aluminum or aluminum alloy-coated steel material includes base steel; and a coating layer formed on a surface of the base steel and containing by mass % Mg: 6% to 10%, Si: 3% to 7%, Fe: 0.2% to 2%, Mn: 0.02% to 2%, and the balance as Al and incidental impurities, wherein the coating layer has pseudoternary eutectic microstructures of ?Al—Mg2Si—(Al—Fe—Si—Mn) and an area ratio of the pseudoternary eutectic microstructures in the coating layer is at least 30%.

Abstract: An inner container is to be installed inside an outer container, the inner container including a jointed portion configured to joint a jointing portion formed in the outer container to prevent the inner container from being separated from the outer container when the inner container is installed in the outer container; and a second engaging portion engaged with a first engaging portion formed in the outer container and configured to prevent the inner container from rotating relative to the outer container.

Abstract: An aluminum or aluminum alloy-coated steel material includes base steel; and a coating layer formed on a surface of the base steel and containing by mass % Mg: 6% to 10%, Si: 3% to 7%, Fe: 0.2% to 2%, Mn: 0.02% to 2%, and the balance as Al and incidental impurities, where-in the coating layer has pseudoternary eutectic microstructures of ?Al—Mg2Si—(Al—Fe—Si—Mn) and an area ratio of the pseudoternary eutectic microstructures in the coating layer is at least 30%.

Abstract: Provided herein are a display apparatus with a touch panel to which a piezoelectric actuator may readily be mounted, and a piezoelectric actuator used in such a display apparatus with a touch panel. A support structure for supporting a piezoelectric actuator 3 on a front surface of a circuit substrate 5 is constituted from a pair of electrically conductive support members 13A, 13B which are each formed of an electrically conductive foam. The piezoelectric actuator 3 may be mounted by locating the piezoelectric actuator 3 with the pair of electrically conductive support members 13A, 13B attached thereto in a predetermined position on the circuit substrate 5, and connecting the pair of electrically conductive support members 13A, 13B to the pair of output electrodes 5A, 5B of the circuit substrate 5.

Abstract: An inner container is to be installed inside an outer container, the inner container including a jointed portion configured to joint a jointing portion formed in the outer container to prevent the inner container from being separated from the outer container when the inner container is installed in the outer container; and a second engaging portion engaged with a first engaging portion formed in the outer container and configured to prevent the inner container from rotating relative to the outer container.

Abstract: Provided herein are a display apparatus with a touch panel to which a piezoelectric actuator may readily be mounted, and a piezoelectric actuator used in such a display apparatus with a touch panel. A support structure for supporting a piezoelectric actuator 3 on a front surface of a circuit substrate 5 is constituted from a pair of electrically conductive support members 13A, 13B which are each formed of an electrically conductive foam. The piezoelectric actuator 3 may be mounted by locating the piezoelectric actuator 3 with the pair of electrically conductive support members 13A, 13B attached thereto in a predetermined position on the circuit substrate 5, and connecting the pair of electrically conductive support members 13A, 13B to the pair of output electrodes 5A, 5B of the circuit substrate 5.

Abstract: There is provided a laser machining apparatus for sheet-like workpieces that allows an installation area to be reduced and that may be readily controlled. The laser machining apparatus includes a Y-table movable in X- and Y-plane directions orthogonal to a laser beam irradiated from an f? lens, a supply reel for holding a supply-side roll which contains a sheet-like workpiece, and a take-up reel for holding a take-up side roll containing a finished sheet-like workpiece. Machining is carried out by fixing the sheet-like workpiece in the machining area on the movable table and by irradiating the laser beam while moving the movable table relative to the laser beam. At least one of the supply reel and the take-up reel is disposed on the movable table.

Abstract: There is provided a laser machining apparatus for sheet-like workpieces that allows an installation area to be reduced and that may be readily controlled. The laser machining apparatus comprises a Y-table movable in X- and Y-plane directions orthogonal to a laser beam irradiated from an f? lens, a supply reel for holding a supply-side roll in which a sheet-like workpiece is rolled in a roll and capable of supplying the sheet-like workpiece, and a take-up reel for holding a take-up side roll in which the sheet-like workpiece whose machining has been finished is rolled up in a roll and capable of taking up the sheet-like workpiece. Machining is carried out by fixing the sheet-like workpiece in the machining area on the movable table and by irradiating the laser beam while relatively moving the movable table to the laser beam. Here, at least one of the supply reel and the take-up reel is disposed on the movable table.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus includes a preliminary chamber which accommodates a mask on which a pellicle is attached, an exhaust device which exhausts a gas from the preliminary chamber, a deformation measuring device which measures the deformation of the pellicle, and a control section which regulates the amount of a gas to be exhausted from the preliminary chamber. At the time of replacing a gas in a space by exhausting the gas from the preliminary chamber, the control section adjusts the exhaust amount of the gas from the preliminary chamber based on the result of the measurement made by the deformation measurement device so that the deformation of the pellicle is within a predetermined range. This can ensure stable gas replacement while preventing the pellicle from being damaged.

Abstract: A light conducting body has a generally conical through bore defined therein. The conical through bore includes a front bore part defined by a sloped surface and a rear bore part defined by a concave surface. A light conducting dial board is installed in the conical through bore with its front face facing forward and positioned in the vicinity of the junction portion between the front and rear bore parts. The dial board has a peripheral edge separated from the inner wall surface of the conical through bore thereby to define therebetween a circumferentially extending space. A light conducting supporting plate is attached to a rear surface of the dial board. The supporting plate is formed with a light transmitting portion which extends rearward and has an rear end intimately received in a recess formed in the rear end of the light conducting body. A plurality of light sources are positioned behind the rear end of the light conducting body.

Abstract: A concentrate package-mix composition comprising a water-soluble pesticide or plant growth regulator, for example a salt of the herbicide glyphosate, and a solid water-insoluble pesticide or plant growth regulator, for example the herbicide flumioxazin, is provided. The water-soluble pesticide or plant growth regulator is dissolved in a continuous aqueous phase of the composition and solid particles of the water-insoluble pesticide or plant growth regulator are suspended in the aqueous phase. These solid particles, individually or plurally, are intimately surrounded by a barrier layer, which comprises either one or both of a water-immiscible organic solvent or an emulsifying agent that has a hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) not greater than about 15. Optionally the composition further comprises a viscosity modifying agent, such as colloidal hydrophilic silica, dispersed in the aqueous phase.

Abstract: A process for producing an aluminum alloy semi-molten billet for use as a transporation unit, including the steps of: producing an aluminum alloy having a composition consisting essentially of, in weight %, 0.5 or less Cu, 5.0 to 10.0 Si, 0.2 to 0.7 Mg, 0.35 or less Zn, 0.55 or less Fe, 0.5 or less Mn, 0.005 to 0.5 Ti, and the balance aluminum; introducing working strain into a melt of the aluminum alloy by means of molding flask-assisted cold forging at a distortion rate of 10 to 40%, at a working introduction velocity of 10 mm or less per second, and at a temperature of 200° C. or lower; and, thereafter heat-treating such a strain introduced melt at temperatures in a range of 576 to 585° C.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus comprises a preliminary chamber which accommodates a mask on which a pellicle is attached, an exhaust device which exhausts a gas from the preliminary chamber, a deformation measuring device which measures the deformation of the pellicle, and a control section which regulates the amount of a gas to be exhausted from the preliminary chamber. At the time of replacing a gas in a space by exhausting the gas from the preliminary chamber, the control section adjusts the exhaust amount of the gas from the preliminary chamber based on the result of the measurement made by the deformation measuring device so that the deformation of the pellicle is within a predetermined range. This can ensure stable gas replacement while preventing the pellicle from being damaged.

Abstract: A light conducting body has a generally conical through bore defined therein. The conical through bore includes a front bore part defined by a sloped surface and a rear bore part defined by a concave surface. A light conducting dial board is installed in the conical through bore with its front face facing forward and positioned in the vicinity of the junction portion between the front and rear bore parts. The dial board has a peripheral edge separated from the inner wall surface of the conical through bore thereby to define therebetween a circumferentially extending space. A light conducting supporting plate is attached to a rear surface of the dial board. The supporting plate is formed with a light transmitting portion which extends rearward and has an rear end intimately received in a recess formed in the rear end of the light conducting body. A plurality of light sources are positioned behind the rear end of the light conducting body.

Abstract: A metallic carrier for a catalytic converter in which a brazing foil material 7 is wound around an outer periphery of an exhaust gas outlet side of a core 5 formed by superposing one on top another a corrugated sheet 1 and a flat sheet 3 formed of a metal sheet and by rolling them, and an assembly thereof is press-fitted into a metallic outer cylinder 15 and is subjected to heat treatment so as to diffusionally join together the corrugated sheet 1 and the flat sheet 3 and join together an inner periphery of the outer cylinder 15 and an outer periphery of the core 5 by a brazing material 7-1, is characterized in that a solder-rising preventing groove 19 is provided over an entire circumference of the inner periphery of the outer cylinder 15 at a position located on an exhaust gas inlet side of an area for joining the core 5.

Abstract: This invention relates to dry, water soluble, agriculturally acceptable herbicidal compositions, to a herbicidal method of use thereof and and to a process for preparing such compositions. This invention also relates to dry, water soluble and/or water dispersible, agriculturally acceptable herbicidal compositions containing two or more herbicides, a herbicidal method of use thereof and to a process for preparing such compositions.

Abstract: A composition comprising N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine or a salt thereof and a triazolinone herbicide is described. The composition can optionally comprise inert ingredients such as a surfactant, an emulsifier, a solvent, or a carrier. Triazolinone herbicides of particular interest in this composition include carfentrazone-ethyl and sulfentrazone.