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A mechanical and electrical-integrated drive unit is provided that is configured to be able to protect a control circuit board from thermal stress, a contaminant, or operating fluid from a motor housing chamber and that can improve the flexibility of layout of electronic components mounted on the control circuit board. The drive unit includes a motor, a control circuit board for controlling energization of the motor, the circuit board installed integrally with the motor, an obstruction portion isolating the motor from the circuit board, and an inverter housing for the circuit board. A coil wire of the motor is covered at its end by a conductive thin-walled narrow tube so as to be joined to the tube. The tube is fixedly inserted into a through-hole formed in the obstruction portion so that at least the leading end portion of the tube is projected into the inverter housing.

Providing a power supply apparatus for a sliding structure, which can be arranged in a small space in the sliding structure, the power supply apparatus includes a wiring harness having a vertical path portion; a harness fixing member for fixing one end of the vertical path portion of the wiring harness on the sliding structure; a fixed base fixed on the sliding structure for holding the other end of the vertical path portion; and a swing member mounted on the fixed base to swing freely in a horizontal plane for allowing the vertical path portion to be twisted along a circumferential direction of itself and leading a part of the wiring harness continued to the vertical path portion toward a fixed structure. Instead of the fixed base, a movable base 5′, and a guide rail to be engaged with the movable base can be applied.

A power supply apparatus for a sliding structure, which can be arranged in a small space in the sliding structure, the power supply apparatus including a wiring harness having a vertical path portion; a harness fixing member for fixing one end of the vertical path portion of the wiring harness on the sliding structure; a fixed base fixed on the sliding structure for holding the other end of the vertical path portion; and a swing member mounted on the fixed base to swing freely in a horizontal plane for allowing the vertical path portion to be twisted along a circumferential direction of itself and leading a part of the wiring harness continued to the vertical path portion toward a fixed structure. Instead of the fixed base, a movable base 5′, and a guide rail to be engaged with the movable base can be applied.

An exhaust system for a multi-cylinder engine can include a plurality of exhaust pipes with first upstream ends connected to exhaust openings of a multi-cylinder engine, and a collecting pipe connected to the second downstream ends of the exhaust pipes for collecting exhaust introduced from the exhaust pipes and directing it to a silencer. The collecting pipe has a front-end portion communicated to exhaust passages of the exhaust pipes, a middle portion for collecting the exhaust introduced from the front-end portion, and a rear-end portion for further collecting the exhaust introduced from the middle portion. The middle portion is provided with exhaust control means for controlling the area of the exhaust passages in accordance with engine speed.

A saddle-type vehicle has an engine unit with a continuously variable transmission. The transmission has a primary sheave and a secondary sheave that are connected by a flexible transmitter such as a belt. The primary sheave, the secondary sheave and the belt are positioned in a transmission case. A starting kick shaft is positioned on the same side of the engine unit as the transmission case but the starting kick shaft is positioned outside of a profile of the transmission case when the engine unit is viewed from a lateral side.

A belt-drive CVT includes a pair of pulleys, each of which has a stationary pulley and a movable pulley that moves toward or away from the stationary pulley in an axial direction of the pulley, a belt that is wound around the pair of pulleys and a rotation state detecting device for detecting rotation of the pulley. The rotation state detecting device has a tone wheel that rotates integrally with the pulley and a sensor that faces the tone wheel. The tone wheel has a cylinder portion that extends along a moving direction of the movable pulley. The cylinder portion is provided with a plurality of detection portions which are arranged at regular intervals in a circumferential direction throughout an entire circumference of the cylinder portion and which extend along the moving direction of the movable pulley.

An arrangement structure for an auxiliary component of a vehicle includes a floor panel defining the bottom surface of the passenger compartment. The floor panel includes a first kick-up portion and a second kick-up portion disposed in side-by-side relation to the first kick-up portion in a lateral direction of a vehicle body. The second kick-up portion is formed to have a height greater than that of the first kick-up portion. A first seat is disposed on the first kick-up portion, a second seat is formed to have a smaller size than that of the first seat and disposed on the second kick-up portion, and a cross member is joined along the second kick-up portion in the lateral direction to form a closed section therebetween. The arrangement structure of the present invention allows a vehicle to have a low overall-height compact body while achieving enhanced layout flexibility and assuring a passenger compartment space.

The invention discloses a combined step milling method of a strip mine semi-continuous system. The combined step milling method comprises the following steps that a, a first excavation belt for mining a main mining step is taken as an initial point to mine a first width of the main mining step in the direction of a machine head; b, multiple width mining operations of the main mining step are completed, and a working surface conveying machine is moved; c, movement of the main mining step is completed and excavation of the multiple mining widths is completed, the semi-continuous system is shifted into the first with mining of the next step, and after mining is completed, an excavator continues to carry out notch forming on the next width of the next step, and the next width is excavated; and d, after multiple width mining operations of the next step are completed, the working surface conveying machine is moved. The combined step operation is adopted in the combined step milling method, the exploitable yield of the semi-continuous system within a one-time movement period is effectively increased, the one-time movement service period of the system is prolonged, and therefore the production efficiency of the system is improved.

The invention relates to a pulverized coal decoupling combustor and a decoupling combustion method thereof. The decoupling combustor comprises a first-stage air duct (12), an inertia separator (11), air current conduits and a spout which are sequentially connected along the air current direction, wherein the air current conduits comprise a dense side air current conduit (7) and a fresh side air current conduit (8); the fresh side air current conduit (8) is communicated with a third-stage spout (1); the dense side air current conduit (7) is connected with a first-stage spout (3); a second-stage spout conduit (6) communicated with the dense side air current conduit (7) is led out of a pipeline between the dense side air current conduit (7) and the first-stage spout (3) on the dense side aircurrent conduit (7); the second-stage spout conduit (6) is communicated with a second-stage spout (2); the first-stage spout (3) is a gradually-increasing spout; a pair of pulverized coal collecting flame stabilizing devices (4) is oppositely arranged at the upper side and the lower side inside the front end of the first-stage spout (3); the cross sections of the pulverized coal collecting flame stabilizing devices (4) along the air current direction is gradually increased; and the area of the cross section of an air current channel is decreased along the air current direction, thus the coupling combustion is realized.

A wireless communication apparatus that communicates data with an external wireless apparatus in a wireless communication range includes a controller and a wireless communication interface device is provided. The wireless communication interface device includes a transmitting unit that transmits response request data to the external wireless apparatus, a counter that counts time for determining whether or not a time limit for waiting for the response data has elapsed, a storage unit that stores the response data, a receiving unit that receives first response data from the external wireless apparatus and that instantaneously receives second response data without an instruction from the controller when the time limit has not elapsed, a frame length checking unit that checks a frame length of the received response data, and an error detector that performs error detection on the response data.

A substrate processing apparatus is disclosed for bringing a substrate from a carrier, by a substrate transfer portion inside a transfer chamber, into a processing module to perform a process therein. The substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate storing chamber coupled to an exterior of the transfer chamber via a transfer opening to be in communications with the transfer chamber; a first storing shelf in the substrate storing chamber to store substrates for a first storing purpose; a second storing shelf in the substrate storing chamber to store substrates for a second storing purpose different from the first storing purpose; and a shifting mechanism that shifts the first and the second storing shelves to position a substrate storing area of one of the first and the second storing shelves so that substrate transferring is enabled between the substrate storing area and the substrate transfer portion via the transfer opening.