Abstract: A producing method of a power storage device includes roll pressing a mixture laminated portion of a wide strip-shaped electrode plate, non-laminated-portion stretching of stretching a pair of mixture non-laminated portions of the wide strip-shaped electrode plate in a longitudinal direction, laminated-portion stretching of stretching a pair of mixture non-laminated-portion-side sections of the mixture laminated portion located on the mixture non-laminated portion side, cutting the wide strip-shaped electrode plate at a center of a width direction in the longitudinal direction to divide into two strip-shaped electrode plates, winding up the two strip-shaped electrode plates around winding cores with applying tensile force in the longitudinal direction in a roll-like shape to form electrode rolls, and storing each of the electrode rolls.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a nozzle; a head; a signal generating circuit configured to generate, based on at least a first data representing a first driving waveform and a second data representing a second driving waveform different from the first driving waveform, a time division multiplex signal; a separating circuit to which the time division multiplex signal is inputted and which includes a switch configured to separate, from the time division multiplex signal, a first driving waveform signal representing the first driving waveform or a second driving waveform signal representing the second driving waveform, based on a synchronization signal; and a synchronization signal generating circuit configured to generate the synchronization signal indicating an opening and closing timing of the switch. The synchronization signal generating circuit is a circuit different from the signal generating circuit.

Abstract: A device includes a rotary electric machine, a liquid supply member configured to supply liquid to the rotary electric machine, and a facing member facing the rotary electric machine in an axial direction with the liquid supply member interposed therebetween. The liquid is supplied to the liquid supply member via the facing member.

Abstract: There is provided droplet discharging apparatus including: nozzle configured to discharge liquid by energy generating element; first signal generator configured to generate, based on first and second data representing first and second driving waveforms, first time division multiplex signal; first separator configured to separate first or second driving waveform signal representing the first or second driving waveform from the first time division multiplex signal; second signal generator configured to generate, based on third and fourth data representing third and fourth driving waveforms, second time division multiplex signal; and second separator configured to separate third or fourth driving waveform signal representing the third or fourth driving waveform from the second time division multiplex signal. The energy generating element is driven by the first or second driving waveform signal separated by the first separator, or by the third or fourth driving waveform signal separated by the second separator.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element and a lead part. The semiconductor element is mounted on a circuit pattern provided on an insulating substrate. The lead part has a plate shape and is bonded to the semiconductor element with a first bonding material interposed therebetween. The lead part includes a lead body and a bonding component. The lead body includes an opening part provided corresponding to a mounting position of the semiconductor element. The bonding component is provided in the opening part and on the semiconductor element. The bonding component is bonded at a lower surface thereof to the semiconductor element by the first bonding material and bonded at an outer peripheral part thereof to an inner periphery of the opening part by a second bonding material.

Abstract: A crimp portion provided to a damping force adjustable shock absorber includes a crimp groove portion provided on an outer peripheral surface of a solenoid case along a circumferential direction thereof, and one end portion of a thin wall portion of a valve case that is contained while being bent in this crimp groove portion. The crimp groove portion includes an inclined surface inclined into a case 40 from a valve case side toward a solenoid case side. Due to this configuration, the damping force adjustable shock absorber can securely fix the solenoid case and the valve case by crimping while reducing a load on a solenoid block and a valve block due to the crimp fixation to a minimum load.

Abstract: The object is to provide a technology of controlling warpage of a metal base plate occurring in temperature change from high temperature to room temperature by causing warpage in the metal base plate in temperature change from room temperature to high temperature. A dissimilar metal layer is formed on a surface of a metal base plate. An insulation substrate is joined to a surface of the dissimilar metal layer with a joining material being provided between the insulation substrate and the surface of the dissimilar metal layer, and includes metal plates disposed on both surfaces. ?1>?3>?2 is satisfied, where ?1 represents a linear expansion coefficient of the metal base plate, ?2 represents a linear expansion coefficient of the dissimilar metal layer, and ?3 represents a linear expansion coefficient of the metal plates.

Abstract: A mounting eye (21) is fastened to a rod by pushing, partially or over an entire periphery, an outer periphery of a joint portion of a mounting eye into an annular groove of the rod. Accordingly, an axial length of a fastening portion can be set shorter than that of a related-art structure (screw fastening), thereby being capable of securing a stroke of the rod of a shock absorber in which the mounting eye is fastened to the rod.

Abstract: A cylinder apparatus is provided with a stopper mechanism that operates when a piston rod extends and moves toward an upper end portion in an inner cylinder. This stopper mechanism includes a second cylinder provided movably relative to the piston rod and including a bottom portion on an upper end side in the inner cylinder and a cylinder portion extending from the bottom portion toward a lower end side, and a second piston provided so as to be able to move along with a movement of the piston rod to be fitted to the second cylinder. While being configured in this manner, the cylinder apparatus is configured in such a manner that a spring member 21 is provided between the second cylinder and a rod guide.

Abstract: An information recording and reproduction device includes a processor including hardware and configured to: acquire first information indicating information relating to a behavior of a driver from a first device mounted in a vehicle; acquire second information indicating information relating to a behavior of the vehicle from a second device mounted in the vehicle; and accumulate the first information and the second information in a memory in a synchronously reproducible manner.

Abstract: A driver assistance device includes a display, a speaker, a microphone, and a processor that includes hardware, and is configured to: acquire first information indicating information relating to a behavior of a driver of a vehicle from a first device that is mounted in the vehicle and is configured to perform an external communication and; display an image of inside of the vehicle that is acquired from a camera provided in the vehicle on the display and cause the speaker and the microphone to establish a condition where a dialogue with the driver in the vehicle is allowed when the first information includes an abnormal behavior of the driver.

Abstract: An operation restriction control device includes processing circuitry configured to set restriction on the manual operation input to a valid state in a case where a vehicle is traveling, set the restriction on the manual operation input to an invalid state when a voice command corresponding to release of the restriction on the manual operation input is input to the first operation input device by a passenger in the vehicle in a state where the restriction on the manual operation input is set to a valid state, and set the restriction on the manual operation input to a valid state when a duration during which a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle is directed to the in-vehicle information device has exceeded a first reference time in a state where the restriction on the manual operation input is set to an invalid state.

Abstract: Some examples include a damper having an outer tube with a piston reciprocally mounted on an interior of the outer tube. A dampening force generating mechanism may be mounted on the outer tube within a threshold distance from a first end of the outer tube to control a dampening property of the piston. In addition, a vehicle interface adapter may seal the first end of the outer tube. The vehicle interface adapter may include an insertion portion extending outward from the first end of the outer tube. The insertion portion is able to be inserted into a cup-shaped portion of a vehicle attachment receptacle. The insertion portion may have a cylindrical wall forming a cylinder that is aligned coaxially with the outer tube.

Abstract: First, second, and third line reading processing is processing of emitting light of each color to first, second, and third line of an original document in first, second, and third lighting order, respectively, and reading reflection light of the emitted light. A color that is first in the first lighting order, a color that is first in the second lighting order, and a color that is first in the third lighting order are different from each other. A color that is second in the first lighting order, a color that is second in the second lighting order, and a color that is second in the third lighting order is different from each other. A color that is third in the first lighting order, a color that is third in the second lighting order, and a color that is third in the third lighting order is different from each other.

Abstract: A shock absorber includes: a first passage through which a working fluid flows from a chamber inside a cylinder; a second passage which communicates with the chamber; a damping force generation mechanism which is provided in the first passage, a communication hole which is provided with at least a part of a passage of the second passage and is formed in a piston rod communicating with at least the chamber; a housing which has a passage of least a part of the second passage; a free piston which is movably provided inside the housing and defines the second passage into an upstream side and a downstream side of a flow of the working fluid when the piston moves in one direction, and an elastic body which is provided between the free piston and the housing. The free piston is formed of a resin material.

Abstract: An eccentricity measuring method includes a forming step of dividing reflected light from a first surface and a second surface of a test lens by a plurality of optical elements and of forming a first spot group and a second spot group, and an eccentricity calculating step of calculating an eccentricity amount of the first surface relative to the second surface based on the first spot group and the second spot group.

Abstract: A crimp portion provided to a damping force adjustable shock absorber includes a crimp groove portion provided on an outer peripheral surface of a solenoid case along a circumferential direction thereof, and one end portion of a thin wall portion of a valve case that is contained while being bent in this crimp groove portion. The crimp groove portion includes an inclined surface inclined into a case 40 from a valve case side toward a solenoid case side. Due to this configuration, the damping force adjustable shock absorber can securely fix the solenoid case and the valve case by crimping while reducing a load on a solenoid block and a valve block due to the crimp fixation to a minimum load.

Abstract: A traveling direction acquiring unit acquires change information of the traveling direction of a vehicle output by a traveling direction detecting unit. An image synthesizing unit synthesizes an image capturing the front view from the vehicle and an image capturing, out of the right rear side view and the left rear side view from the vehicle, a rear side view in a direction after a change indicated by the change information. A display control unit outputs, to a projecting unit, a control signal for projecting the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit in a front view in the direction after the change indicated by the change information, the front view being one of the right front view and the left front view as viewed from a driver.

Abstract: First, second, and third line reading processing is processing of emitting light of each color to first, second, and third line of an original document in first, second, and third lighting order, respectively, and reading reflection light of the emitted light. A color that is first in the first lighting order, a color that is first in the second lighting order, and a color that is first in the third lighting order are different from each other. A color that is second in the first lighting order, a color that is second in the second lighting order, and a color that is second in the third lighting order is different from each other. A color that is third in the first lighting order, a color that is third in the second lighting order, and a color that is third in the third lighting order is different from each other.

Abstract: The integrated controller calculates the required lubricant flowrate required for lubricating the friction element corresponding to a selected position on the basis of a rotation speed difference in the friction element corresponding to the selected position, and increases the lubricant flowrate supplied to the friction element corresponding to the selected position immediately after switching is made between the forward position and the reverse position and supplies the lubricant flowrate larger than the required lubricant flowrate to the friction element corresponding to the selected position.