Abstract: A spindle motor includes a shaft, a base part, a stator core, a rotor, and a bearing part. The shaft extends along a center axis extending in the vertical direction and has a screw hole extending axially downward from the upper end thereof. The screw hole has a screw part onto which a screw is screwed. The bearing part includes an upper annular member, a lower annular member, and a sleeve. The upper annular member and the lower annular member protrude radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the shaft and are disposed to be spaced apart from each other in the axial direction. The sleeve covers the outer peripheral surface of the shaft, extends in the axial direction, and is defined in a cylindrical shape. The upper end of the upper annular member is disposed lower than the lower end of the screw part in the axial direction.

Abstract: An evaluation method including steps of: acquiring profile measurement data on an entire surface in a thickness direction of a mirror-polished wafer; identifying a slice-cutting direction by performing first-order or second-order differentiation on diameter-direction profile measurement data on the wafer to acquire differential profiles at predetermined rotation angles and pitches, and comparing the acquired differential profiles; acquiring x-y grid data by performing first-order or second-order differentiation on profile measurement data at a predetermined pitch in a y-direction at a predetermined interval in an x-direction perpendicular to the y-direction, which is the identified slice-cutting direction; acquiring, from the x-y grid data, a maximum derivative value in an intermediate region including the wafer center in the y-direction and a maximum derivative value in upper-end-side and lower-end-side regions located outside the intermediate region; and judging failure incidence possibility in a device fab

Abstract: A tire can include a pair of beads, a carcass, an inner liner, and an insulation located between the carcass and the inner liner. The carcass can include one carcass ply. The carcass ply can include a plurality of carcass cords and a topping rubber. Each carcass cord can have a total fineness of not less than 6000 dtex and not greater than 9000 dtex. The insulation can be located between first and second beads. A ratio (ta/td) of a thickness to of the topping rubber located between the insulation and the carcass cords to a thickness td of the insulation can be not less than 0.2 and not greater than 0.6.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel resin that is useful as a film forming material for lithography and the like. The problem can be solved by a resin containing a constituent unit represented by the following formula (1) or (1)?: wherein the variables in the formulas are as described in the specification.

Abstract: A repeatedly bendable power storage device. A highly reliable power storage device. A long-life power storage device. A repeatedly bendable electronic device. A flexible electronic device. The power storage device includes a film, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode. The film includes a plurality of projections. A difference between the maximum height and the minimum height of a surface of the film is greater than or equal to 0.15 mm and less than 0.8 mm. The modulus of rigidity of the film is less than 6.5×109 N. The film includes a metal layer. The thickness of the metal layer is greater than or equal to 5 ?m and less than or equal to 200 ?m. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are surrounded by the film.

Abstract: In a mounting structure in which an electronic component is mounted on a wiring board, a wiring sheet including an adhesive layer interposes between the electronic component and the wiring board and the electronic component is indirectly mounted on the wiring board. The electronic component is directly mounted on the adhesive layer of the wiring sheet and the adhesive layer of the wiring sheet is directly fitted to the wiring board. Conduction between the electronic component and the wiring board is attained by conduction between the electronic component and the wiring sheet and conduction between the wiring sheet and the wiring board.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a substrate state determining apparatus includes: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a substrate placed on a stage; a learning unit that executes a machine learning using training data in which information indicating a state of the substrate is attached to the image of the substrate, so as to generate a substrate state determination model in which the image of the substrate is taken as an input and a value related to the state of the substrate corresponding to the image of the substrate is taken as an output; and a determination unit that determines the state of the substrate corresponding to the image of the substrate captured by the image capturing unit, using the substrate state determination model generated by the learning unit.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire facility information containing an advertisement or publicity on a facility located along a travel route that a vehicle is scheduled to travel or a facility located within a predetermined range from the travel route, and, while the vehicle is traveling along the travel route, process an image of a first facility associated with the facility information or an image of a second facility present around the first facility based on the facility information and display the image of the first facility or the image of the second facility on a display provided in the vehicle.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler has an outer cylinder into which an exhaust gas from an engine is introduced and a muffling member made of a foamed ceramic material. The outer cylinder has an inner cylinder through which the exhaust gas passes, a part of the muffling member is supported by an outer wall of the inner cylinder via a holding member. The inner cylinder includes, in an area where the inner cylinder overlaps with the muffling member with respect to axial direction of the inner cylinder, a porous wall portion formed with communication holes communicating an inside and an outside of the inner cylinder. The holding member is arranged at a position where it does not overlap with a part of the porous wall portion, so that muffling effect is enhanced, and the muffling member having a low resistance to impact forces can be supported stably by the inner cylinder.

Abstract: In an electrical connection device in which an adhesive layer is disposed on a flexible base and a conductor pattern is provided on the adhesive layer, an elastomer pattern obtained by curing an ink containing an elastomer composition is formed on the adhesive layer, the conductor pattern obtained by curing an ink containing a conductive particle is formed on the elastomer pattern, and a longitudinal elastic modulus of the elastomer pattern is set to be larger than a longitudinal elastic modulus of the adhesive layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a processing device that is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time. The processing device includes a controller configured to execute searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication, in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation, and deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle.

Abstract: A module is provided with a structural object and a connection member. The structural object is provided with an electronic device and a resin portion. The electronic device has an electrode. The electronic device is embedded in the resin portion. The electrode is exposed from the resin portion. The connection member is provided with a film-like base member, an adhesive layer 34 provided on the film-like base member and a wiring formed on the adhesive layer at least in part. The connection member is stuck to the structural object. At least a part of the resin portion of the structural object is directly stuck to the adhesive layer of the connection member. The wiring is pressed to the electrode of the electronic device.

Abstract: In an electrical connection device in which an adhesive layer is disposed on a flexible base and a conductor pattern is provided on the adhesive layer, an elastomer pattern obtained by curing an ink containing an elastomer composition is formed on the adhesive layer, the conductor pattern obtained by curing an ink containing a conductive particle is formed on the elastomer pattern, and a longitudinal elastic modulus of the elastomer pattern is set to be larger than a longitudinal elastic modulus of the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to execute identifying a first training device that is of one or more training devices equipped in a movable object for providing a training opportunity to a passenger and that is used by the passenger, and at least one process of controlling a traveling state of the movable object depending on a content of a training using the first training device and restricting use states of the one or more training devices depending on the traveling state of the movable object.

Abstract: In an electrical connection device in which a adhesive layer is disposed on a flexible base and a conductor pattern is provided on the adhesive layer, an elastomer pattern obtained by curing an ink containing an elastomer composition is formed on the adhesive layer, the conductor pattern obtained by curing an ink containing a conductive particle is formed on the elastomer pattern, and a longitudinal elastic modulus of the elastomer pattern is set to be larger than a longitudinal elastic modulus of the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A processing device that is provided in a building in which a user stays includes a control unit configured to perform: transmitting a request for a vehicle which the user desires to use to move to the building; detecting that the vehicle reaches a vicinity of the building; inquiring of the user about whether access of the vehicle to the inside of the building is permitted when it is detected that the vehicle reaches the vicinity of the building; and guiding at least a part of the vehicle to the inside of the building when the access is permitted by the user.

Abstract: A controller of an autonomous traveling vehicle as an information processing apparatus of the disclosure executes acquiring first information relating to a predetermined item and the first information relating to predetermined processing in a processing apparatus mounted on the autonomous traveling vehicle, acquiring second information relating to shipping of the predetermined item, controlling running of the autonomous traveling vehicle based on the second information, and controlling the operation of the processing apparatus based on the first information when the autonomous traveling vehicle is in a running state based on the second information.

Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: identifying a user when the user enters a vehicle and performing a process of guaranteeing a boarded state of the user while the user is in the vehicle; receiving information on a predetermined procedure for performing an authentication process from the user; and transmitting user information which is required for performing the predetermined procedure as information on the user of whom the boarded state in the vehicle is guaranteed to an external device that is installed at a first place for the predetermined procedure in a state in which the boarded state of the user is guaranteed.

Abstract: An exhaust muffler has an outer cylinder into which an exhaust gas from an engine is introduced and a muffling member made of a foamed ceramic material. The outer cylinder has an inner cylinder through which the exhaust gas passes, a part of the muffling member is supported by an outer wall of the inner cylinder via a holding member. The inner cylinder includes, in an area where the inner cylinder overlaps with the muffling member with respect to axial direction of the inner cylinder, a porous wall portion formed with communication holes communicating an inside and an outside of the inner cylinder. The holding member is arranged at a position where it does not overlap with a part of the porous wall portion, so that muffling effect is enhanced, and the muffling member having a low resistance to impact forces can be supported stably by the inner cylinder.

Abstract: In an electrical connection device in which a adhesive layer is disposed on a flexible base and a conductor pattern is provided on the adhesive layer, an elastomer pattern obtained by curing an ink containing an elastomer composition is formed on the adhesive layer, the conductor pattern obtained by curing an ink containing a conductive particle is formed on the elastomer pattern, and a longitudinal elastic modulus of the elastomer pattern is set to be larger than a longitudinal elastic modulus of the adhesive layer.