Abstract: A geared electric motor comprises: an output gear configured to rotate around an axial line parallel to a rotor shaft as an axis of rotation; an output shaft configured to rotate integrally with the output gear, the output shaft being arranged at a position facing an input gear with a distance in a direction of the axis of rotation; a first holding member holding the rotor bearing; a second holding member holding a first output bearing; and a third holding member holding a second output bearing. The first holding member, the second holding member, and the third holding member are fixed to each other with the third holding member sandwiched between the first holding member and the second holding member.

Abstract: A bearing device includes an oil supply body that cooperates with a bearing ring to form an oil retention space to be filled with a lubricating oil. The oil retention space is open at least on a rolling element side. Thus, the lubricating oil is supplied from the oil retention space to a rolling bearing.

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a heat source side heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a user side heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe. Further, the refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a detector configured to detect a discharge temperature of the compressor, and a heat transfer pipe temperature and an outlet pipe temperature of the heat exchanger functioning as a condenser; and a controller capable of performing a supercooling degree control and a discharge temperature control or a discharge superheating degree control, based on a result of the detection by the detector. The controller is configured to control an opening degree of the expansion valve based on any of the supercooling degree control and the discharge temperature control or the discharge superheating degree control, according to operating characteristics of the refrigeration cycle apparatus.

Abstract: A rotor includes a first resin portion formed the periphery of a main shaft; a first core disposed the outer circumferential portion of the first resin portion; a magnet attached to the radial outside of the first core; and a second core disposed the radially outside end face of the magnet, wherein a plurality of structures in each of which the magnet is sandwiched between the first and second cores are disposed circumferentially around the main shaft, and a second resin portion is formed between the circumferential end faces of adjacent second cores and between the circumferential end faces of adjacent magnets, wherein the first core has a division surface on which the circumferential end faces of itself and an adjacent first core are in surface contact with each other, and wherein the second core is not in contact with an adjacent second core.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes at least one magnetic sensor and a support. A center of gravity of an element layout area of the at least one magnetic sensor is deviated from a center of gravity of a reference plane of the support. The at least one magnetic sensor includes four resistor sections constituted by a plurality of magnetoresistive elements. Magnetization of a free layer in each of two of the resistor sections includes a component in a third magnetization direction. The magnetization of a free layer in each of the other two resistor sections includes a component in a fourth magnetization direction opposite to the third magnetization direction.

Abstract: The magnetic sensor of the invention has an element portion that is elongate, that exhibits magnetoresistive effect and that has a magnetically sensitive axis in a direction of a short axis thereof. The element portion is non-oval and can be arranged in an imaginary ellipse, wherein the imaginary ellipse has a major axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of a long axis thereof to each other and a minor axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of the short axis thereof to each other, as viewed in a direction that is perpendicular both to the short axis and to the long axis of the element portion.

Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a display processing unit configured to display, on a display, a peripheral image representing a virtual gaze area including a virtual gaze point viewed from a virtual viewpoint in a virtual space in which a situation in a periphery of a vehicle is reflected, based on a captured image acquired by capturing an image of the periphery of the vehicle; and a change processing unit configured to change a viewpoint radius corresponding to a distance between the virtual gaze point and the virtual viewpoint and a viewing angle corresponding to a range of the virtual gaze area viewed from the virtual viewpoint in accordance with a change in a situation on a left side or a right side in a traveling direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable output of information using a more optimal output modal. Provided is an information processing device including a processing unit configured to perform processes of: acquiring apparatus information regarding an output modal for each electronic apparatus; selecting an electronic apparatus having an output modal that outputs information from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses on the basis of the acquired apparatus information; and outputting the information from an output modal of the selected electronic apparatus. The present technology can be applied to, for example, electronic apparatuses such as information apparatuses, video apparatuses, audio apparatuses, or household electrical appliances.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit and a controller. The refrigerant circuit includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The bypass circuit is connected, by a pipe, to each of a plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers via a defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device, a defrosting flow passage switching device, and a backflow prevention device. The controller switches a flow passage for use in introduction of refrigerant using the defrosting flow passage switching device, to select one of the plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers as a defrosting target to be defrosted; and supplies defrosting refrigerant whose pressure is reduced by the defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device to the selected one of the plurality of parallel outdoor heat exchangers.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit in which a compressor, a flow switching device, an indoor heat exchanger, a pressure reducing device, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel with each other are connected by pipes, a bypass pipe, a flow control device provided to the bypass pipe and configured to adjust a flow rate of refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe, an evaporating pressure sensor configured to measure an evaporating pressure of the refrigerant, and a controller. The air-conditioning apparatus is configured to operate in a normal heating operation mode and a heating-defrosting operation mode. When an operation associated with the normal heating operation mode is switched to an operation associated with the heating-defrosting operation mode, the controller adjusts an opening degree of the flow control device using the evaporating pressure in the parallel heat exchanger and a driving frequency of the compressor.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor of the present invention has an elongate element portion having a magnetoresistive effect and a pair of elongate soft magnetic bodies that are arranged along the element portion on both sides of the element portion with regard to a short axis thereof. Each soft magnetic body includes a central portion that is adjacent to the element portion from one end to another end of the element portion with regard to a long axis direction thereof and a pair of end portions that protrude from the central portion in the long axis direction. A width of at least one of the end portions gradually decreases in a direction away from the central portion in at least a part of the end portions in the long axis direction thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides acrylic resin-modified silica particles which, when used in a coating composition, enable the coating composition to form a coating film that exhibits excellent scratch resistance and excellent adhesion during recoating (recoat adhesion). The acrylic resin-modified silica particles contain silica particles (A) and an acrylic resin (B) bonded to the silica particles (A), the acrylic resin (B) having at least one chain selected from the group consisting of a polyoxyalkylene chain and a polyester chain and having a polysiloxane structure.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit, an air-conditioning load state detection unit, an operation-state detection unit, and a controller. The refrigerant circuit includes a main circuit and a bypass circuit. The air-conditioning apparatus has a simultaneous heating and defrosting operation mode. In the simultaneous heating and defrosting operation mode, the controller controls a compressor, a pressure reducing device, and a defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device such that control amounts of the compressor, the pressure reducing device, and the defrosting refrigerant pressure-reducing device reach respective normal-time control target values that are set based on an air-conditioning load state and an operation state.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing an aqueous dispersion of acrylic urethane composite resin (AB) particles that, when used as a constituent component of an aqueous coating composition, provides the aqueous coating composition with excellent storage stability, the aqueous coating composition being capable of forming a coating film with excellent abrasion resistance, chipping resistance, and glass adhesiveness even when the aqueous coating composition is cured at a relatively low temperature. The aqueous dispersion of acrylic urethane composite resin (AB) particles including a urethane resin portion (A) produced from constituent components including a compound (a1) having a secondary amino group and an alkoxysilyl group and an isocyanate group-containing urethane prepolymer (a2), and an acrylic resin portion (B) produced from constituent components including a compound (b) having a polymerizable unsaturated group and having no hydroxyl group or one hydroxyl group.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic field detection device that includes a first and second soft magnetic bodies, and a magnetic detector. The first and second soft magnetic bodies extend along a first plane and are disposed in confronted relation in a third direction. The first plane includes both a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The third direction is orthogonal to both the first and second directions. The magnetic detector is provided between the first and second soft magnetic bodies in the third direction.

Abstract: There is provided a coating composition capable of forming a coating film exhibiting excellent scratch resistance over a long period of time even in an outdoor environment. The coating composition including a hydroxyl group-containing resin (A), a crosslinking agent (B), and a dispersion of silica particles (C) having a hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resin (c1) bonded thereto and an ultraviolet absorber (c21) and/or a hindered amine-based light stabilizer (c22) bonded thereto.

Abstract: An air-conditioning device includes: a main circuit in which a refrigerant circulates; a flow channel-switching unit configured to select a certain parallel heat exchanger as a defrosting target; a bypass pipe; a temperature-detecting unit; an operation control unit configured to operate the flow channel-switching unit such that an operation mode is switched between a normal heating operation mode in which the plurality of parallel heat exchangers serve as evaporators and a defrosting heating operation mode in which one parallel heat exchanger is selected as the defrosting target to cause part of the refrigerant to flow thereinto via the bypass pipe and the other parallel heat exchangers serves as an evaporator; and an erroneous installation-sensing unit configured to sense erroneous installation of an installed component based on a magnitude relationship between the detected temperatures in the plurality of parallel heat exchangers detected by the temperature-detecting unit.

Abstract: A magnetic field detection device includes a base, a first yoke, and a magneto-resistive effect element. The first yoke is provided on the base, and includes first and second principal surfaces each extending along a first plane, and a first end surface coupling the first and second principal surfaces. The magneto-resistive effect element is provided on the base, and includes a magnetization free layer disposed at a position overlapped with the first yoke in a first direction along the first plane. The first end surface includes an inverted tapered surface inclined relative to the first plane and extending closer to a center point of the magnetization free layer as being away from the base in a second direction orthogonal to the first plane. A distance from the center point to a first edge is shorter than a distance from the center point to a second edge.

Abstract: An air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning apparatus, a storage device, a deterioration estimation unit, a lifetime calculation circuitry, a control construction circuitry, and an air-conditioning control circuitry. The storage device stores the values of a plurality of contrast parameters indicating the operating status of a plurality of air-conditioning apparatuses including a contrast air-conditioning apparatus that is identical in condition to the air-conditioning apparatus and stores contrast deterioration information items indicating on a time-series basis the degree of deterioration. The deterioration estimation circuitry estimates, based on the values of an operation parameter and a contrast parameter, the degree of deterioration of the air-conditioning apparatus. The lifetime calculation circuitry extracts, based on the degree of deterioration, an extracted deterioration information item.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic field detection device that includes a first and second soft magnetic bodies, and a magnetic detector. The first and second soft magnetic bodies extend along a first plane and are disposed in confronted relation in a third direction. The first plane includes both a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The third direction is orthogonal to both the first and second directions. The magnetic detector is provided between the first and second soft magnetic bodies in the third direction.