Abstract: A vehicle is positively charged with static electricity due to an external factor. The vehicle includes a battery, a static eliminator sheet, and a holding member. The battery includes at least one cell, an electrolyte, a resin case, and negative and positive terminals. The resin case accommodates the components and electrolyte of each cell. The negative terminal is grounded to the vehicle body. The positive terminal is supplied with electric power from a charger. The static eliminator sheet is made of a material on a positive side of a triboelectric series with respect to a material of the resin case. The holding member holds the static eliminator sheet and the resin case in contact with each other. The holding member holds the battery at a predetermined location of the vehicle body in a state where the resin case and the static eliminator sheet are slidable due to vehicle body vibrations.

Abstract: A vehicular air conditioner includes a casing, a blower fan, and a heating heat exchanger that is disposed in the casing. The heating heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the blower fan. The blower fan is disposed to extend over a first outside air space, a second outside air space, a first inside air space, and a second inside air space. The rotational direction of the blower fan is set so that each of the plurality of blades of the blower fan passes through the first inside air space, the first outside air space, the second outside air space, and the second inside air space in this order when the plurality of blade are rotating.

Abstract: A vehicular air conditioner includes a casing, a blower fan, and a heating heat exchanger. The air passage in the casing is divided into an outside air passage and an inside air passage. The heating heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the blower fan in the casing. The blower fan is disposed to extend over a first outside air space, a second outside air space, a first inside air space, and a second inside air space in the air passage. The rotational direction of the blower fan is set so that each of the plurality of blades of the blower fan passes through the first outside air space, the first inside air space, the second inside air space, and the second outside air space in this order when the plurality of blade are rotating.

Abstract: A device controls a defogging unit of a vehicle to be driven in a driving mode corresponding to a self-driving degree indicating a degree of depending on a self-driving system for a driving operation, and the defogging unit defogs a window of the vehicle. The device includes: an identification unit that identifies the self-driving degree; and a control execution unit that controls the anti-fogging function exhibited by the defogging unit. The self-driving degree is defined as exhibiting a higher value as the degree of depending on the self-driving system for the driving operation is larger. When the self-driving degree identified by the identification unit is a second value higher than a first value, the control execution unit controls the anti-fogging function executed by the defogging unit to be lower than that when the self-driving degree identified by the identification unit is the first value.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the computer controlling an utterance of a robot, the process including detecting an utterance of a person by using a microphone, obtaining, in response to the detecting, pieces of response information for the utterance of the person based on first information indicating a content of the utterance of the person, obtaining second information relating to at least one of the person and a motion of the person other than the utterance of the person, selecting specified response information among the pieces of response information based on the second information, and transmitting, to the robot, an instruction that causes the robot to execute a response in accordance with the specified response information.

Abstract: A heating device includes an insole member which is disposed in a footwear and which includes a heating member, and an induction heating coil that heats the heating member through electromagnetic induction, the insole member being formed separately from the footwear.

Abstract: An air conditioner is used in a vehicle that includes a seat configured to be switchable between a first state in which a front end side part of a seat portion is located at a front of the vehicle with respect to a backrest portion, and a second state in which the front end side part of the seat portion is located at a different position from a position of the front end side part in the first state. The vehicle air conditioner includes an air-conditioning unit, and an air outlet configured to blow air from the air-conditioning unit. The vehicle air conditioner also includes a blowing passage member defining a blowing passage that guides the air blown from the air outlet to an upper side of the seat portion when the seat is in the second state.

Abstract: A vehicular air conditioner includes a casing, a blower fan, and a heating heat exchanger that is disposed in the casing. The heating heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the blower fan. The blower fan is disposed to extend over a first outside air space, a second outside air space, a first inside air space, and a second inside air space. The rotational direction of the blower fan is set so that each of the plurality of blades of the blower fan passes through the first inside air space, the first outside air space, the second outside air space, and the second inside air space in this order when the plurality of blade are rotating.

Abstract: A vehicular air conditioner includes a casing, a blower fan, and a heating heat exchanger. The air passage in the casing is divided into an outside air passage and an inside air passage. The heating heat exchanger is disposed downstream of the blower fan in the casing. The blower fan is disposed to extend over a first outside air space, a second outside air space, a first inside air space, and a second inside air space in the air passage. The rotational direction of the blower fan is set so that each of the plurality of blades of the blower fan passes through the first outside air space, the first inside air space, the second inside air space, and the second outside air space in this order when the plurality of blade are rotating.

Abstract: A humidity control device includes an adsorber, a blower, and a mode switching unit configured to set a desorption mode in which moisture adsorbed by an adsorbent is desorbed to humidify air or an adsorption mode in which moisture is adsorbed by the adsorbent to dehumidify air. The adsorber has ventilation surfaces through which air flows in or out. The mode switching unit is configured to reverse an air flow direction in the adsorber such that one of the ventilation surfaces serving as an air inflow surface in the adsorption mode is used for an air outflow surface in the desorption mode and that the other of the ventilation surfaces serving as an air outflow surface in the adsorption mode becomes an air inflow surface in the desorption mode in a state where an air suction direction and an air blowout direction of the blower is maintained.

Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning unit includes an air-conditioning case and an inside/outside air switching door that is configured to change a ratio of a flow rate of an inside air to a flow rate of an outside air in an air introduced into the air-conditioning case. The vehicle air-conditioning unit includes a cooler that is disposed in the air-conditioning case, and a blower that is located downstream of the cooler and sends the air to a vehicle compartment. The air-conditioning case includes a drain pipe located downstream of the cooler, the drain pipe having a tube shape through which a condensed water generated on the cooler is drained out of the air-conditioning case. The cooler is located on an extended line of a centerline of the drain pipe such that a suction air drawn through the drain pipe into the air-conditioning case flows along the cooler.

Abstract: An air-conditioning unit for a vehicle includes an air-conditioning case; a cooler disposed in the air-conditioning case and adapted to cool air flowing through the air-conditioning case; and a blower disposed on an air-flow downstream side of the cooler and adapted to blow the air into a vehicle interior. The air-conditioning case includes a drain-hole formation portion that forms a drain hole to discharge condensed water generated in the cooler toward an outside of the air-conditioning case. The air-conditioning case is provided with a cooling structure that cools suction air drawn from the drain hole into the air-conditioning case.

Abstract: An air conditioning device includes a casing that provides multiple air passages, a blower fan that suctions an air from the multiple air passages and blows out the air in the casing, a suction side partitioning member that is disposed on a suction side of the blower fan in the casing and separates air flows from the multiple air passages from each other, and a blowing side partitioning member that is disposed on a blowing side of the blower fan in the casing and separates the air flows from the multiple air passages from each other. The suction side partitioning member and the blowing side partitioning member are disposed so that a relative position of the blowing side partitioning member to the suction side partitioning member is deviated in a rotation direction of the blower fan.

Abstract: A device controls a defogging unit of a vehicle to be driven in a driving mode corresponding to a self-driving degree indicating a degree of depending on a self-driving system for a driving operation, and the defogging unit defogs a window of the vehicle. The device includes: an identification unit that identifies the self-driving degree; and a control execution unit that controls the anti-fogging function exhibited by the defogging unit. The self-driving degree is defined as exhibiting a higher value as the degree of depending on the self-driving system for the driving operation is larger. When the self-driving degree identified by the identification unit is a second value higher than a first value, the control execution unit controls the anti-fogging function executed by the defogging unit to be lower than that when the self-driving degree identified by the identification unit is the first value.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the computer controlling an utterance of a robot, the process including detecting an utterance of a person by using a microphone, obtaining, in response to the detecting, pieces of response information for the utterance of the person based on first information indicating a content of the utterance of the person, obtaining second information relating to at least one of the person and a motion of the person other than the utterance of the person, selecting specified response information among the pieces of response information based on the second information, and transmitting, to the robot, an instruction that causes the robot to execute a response in accordance with the specified response information.

Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning unit includes an air-conditioning case and an inside/outside air switching door that is configured to change a ratio of a flow rate of an inside air to a flow rate of an outside air in an air introduced into the air-conditioning case. The vehicle air-conditioning unit includes a cooler that is disposed in the air-conditioning case, and a blower that is located downstream of the cooler and sends the air to a vehicle compartment. The air-conditioning case includes a drain pipe located downstream of the cooler, the drain pipe having a tube shape through which a condensed water generated on the cooler is drained out of the air-conditioning case. The cooler is located on an extended line of a centerline of the drain pipe such that a suction air drawn through the drain pipe into the air-conditioning case flows along the cooler.

Abstract: A reception supporting method is executed by a computer. The reception supporting method includes determining a responder who responds to a customer when the customer is detected, acquiring time taken until responding to the customer by the responder, selecting a first scenario from among a plurality of scenarios to each of which conversation time is individually set, the first conversation time set to the first scenario being no longer than the time, and instructing a human interface device to execute a conversation with the customer, the conversation being based on the first scenario.