Abstract: An information processing device obtains order identification information capable of identifying an order placed by an order-placing person, transmits, as payment information, the order identification information, causes a printing process of a print medium to be executed, the print medium being capable of identifying the order identification information and gives, to another information processing device when an additional order placed by the order-placing person is received, an invalidation command which invalidates the order identification information in such a way that a payment with respect to the order identification information on an order not paid yet and placed by the same order-placing person is disabled.

Abstract: A duct assembly for a vehicle includes an intake duct configured to supply air to an object to be cooled and a discharge duct configured to discharge the air supplied to the object to be cooled to the outside of the vehicle. The discharge duct has a discharge port that opens downward. The intake duct has an intake port that opens rearward. The rear bumper has a depression and an upper wall section. The depression has a panel opening that allows passage of air supplied to the intake port. The depression is recessed from the upper wall section toward the front of the vehicle.

Abstract: A steering system in a vehicle includes a plurality of subsystems provided with a control unit. The control unit includes a storage unit storing steer angle information regarding a steer angle of one of a steering mechanism and a steered mechanism when the steering mechanism or the steered mechanism stops, an abnormality determiner determining abnormality of the motor rotation detection value and the detection circuit in the plurality of subsystems at a start time of a motor based on a comparison of at least two parameters, and a steer angle calculator calculating the steer angle based on the parameters having been determined by the abnormality determiner as not abnormal.

Abstract: A gas sensing element includes a gas detection layer including a pigment, the gas detection layer including a first surface; and a backing material disposed on the first surface of the gas detection layer. When reducing gas causes the gas sensing element to change in color, a color change ?L* of the gas sensing element is greater than or equal to 5.

Abstract: A shielding shell is provided which is used for a connector to be installed on a casing of a device, and includes a shell cylinder, a spring piece, and a screw portion, in which the spring piece includes a contact point to contact the casing, at an end thereof, the spring piece is configured to maintain the contact between the contact point and the casing due to elasticity of the spring, the screw portion includes a mounting portion to be mounted on the casing, and the mounting portion is configured to contact the casing via a contact surface facing the casing upon the connector being installed on the casing by means of the mounting portion.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing fittable with a fitted portion of a counterpart housing of a counterpart connector. The housing includes a base and a fitting portion. The fitting portion is integrated with the base and fittable with the fitted portion. The fitting portion extends in a direction intersecting a fitting direction with respect to the counterpart housing and faces the base. The fitting portion includes a wall configured to close an opening of the fitted portion when the fitting portion is fitted with the fitted portion.

Abstract: A connector includes a housing, and a holding member attached to the housing. The holding member holds a stack of a first conductive member and a first reinforcing plate. The first reinforcing plate is disposed on a second face of the first conductive member, the second face being opposite to a first face on which a plurality of conductors is arranged adjacent to each other in a width direction and planarly exposed at a first end side in a length direction. The holding member is laid in a band shape in the width direction on the stack at an intermediate position between the first end side and a second end side in the length direction. The stack further includes a second reinforcing plate and a second conductive member. The second reinforcing plate is disposed on a second face of the first reinforcing plate, the second face being opposite to a first face on which the first conductive member is disposed.

Abstract: Provided is a connector including a housing and a holding member to be mounted to the housing, wherein the holding member holds a conductive member in which a reinforcement plate is arranged on the other surface on an opposite side of one surface on which a plurality of conductors arrayed adjacent to each other in a width direction is exposed planarly on one end side in a length direction, as a laminate of the conductive member and the reinforcement plate, and the holding member is laid across in a band-like manner along the width direction at an intermediate position between the one end side and the other end side in the length direction with respect to the laminate.

Abstract: Hydroxyapatite having high biocompatibility suitable for applications such as food additives, cosmetic ingredients, pharmaceutical ingredients, and artificial bones is provided. The hydroxyapatite of the present invention contains Mg.

Abstract: A duct assembly for a vehicle includes an intake duct having an intake port that opens rearward, a discharge duct having a discharge port that opens downward, and a protrusion. The protrusion protrudes to a position below the discharge port from a position that is forward of the discharge port and overlaps with the discharge port in the width direction of the vehicle. The protrusion has a protruding distal end face. The distance in the front-rear direction from the rear end of the protruding distal end face to the rear end of the discharge port is defined as L. The distance in the vertical direction from the lower end of the object to be cooled to the rear end of the protruding distal end face is defined as H. The value obtained by dividing the distance L by the distance H is less than 3.5.

Abstract: A rotary electric device control device controls driving of a rotary electric device including a plurality of winding sets. The rotary electric device control device includes: a plurality of drive circuits; and a plurality of control units. The control units include signal output units for outputting control signals to the drive circuits corresponding to the control units, respectively, and communicate with each other. The control units include: one master control unit; and at least one slave control unit. An electric power steering device includes: a rotary electric device control device; the rotary electric device that outputs an assist torque for assisting a steering operation of a steering wheel by a driver; and a power transmission unit that transmits a driving force of the rotary electric device to a drive target.

Abstract: The sealing method is for sealing between: a rear surface of a first component which is a composite material containing a reinforcing fiber and a resin; and a front surface of a second component facing the rear surface of the first component. The sealing method includes: a step (ST03) in which a molded body is placed at a corner between the front surface and an end surface of the first component, with a first sealing material interposed therebetween; and a step (ST06) in which a second sealing material is applied from the molded body up to the front surface of the second component.

Abstract: A gas sensing element includes a gas detection layer including a chemochromic pigment, with modifications towards enhancing shelf-life performance and false detection performance before use. The gas detection layer has an adhesion of greater than or equal to 0.2 N/25 mm. Also described are methods of making the aforedescribed element to attain enhanced shelf-life performance and false detection performance.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a heat exchanging type cooling device comprising an undercover disposed below the cooler body and having an air outlet through which the ambient air discharged through the lower surface of the cooler body is exhausted downwardly into outside atmosphere, the air outlet being formed through the undercover so as to extend in a vertical direction. The undercover is provided with a plurality of fins disposed within the air outlet such that the fins are spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, each of the fins extending in a width direction of the vehicle and being inclined such that a lower end of the fin is located backward of its upper end in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A cooling device of a vehicle includes a cooler body of a heat exchanging type and an air intake duct which are disposed in a rear portion of the vehicle. The air intake duct extends backwardly from the cooler body in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and is disposed such that the air intake duct is displaceable relative to the cooler body forwardly of the vehicle upon application of an impact load to the air intake duct. The cooler body is attached to a body of the vehicle, while the air intake duct is attached to the cooler body, such that a strength of attachment of the air intake duct to the cooler body is lower than a strength of attachment of the cooler body to the body of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a heat exchanging type cooling device includes an undercover disposed below the cooler body and having an air exhaust passage into which the ambient air discharged through the lower surface of the cooler body is introduced and through which the ambient air is exhausted into outside atmosphere, under a negative air pressure generated due to an air stream generated during running of the vehicle; and an elastically deformable sealing member in a closed form interposed between the air exhaust passage and the lower surface of the cooler body. The undercover is attached to the body of the vehicle, such that a gap is provided between the undercover and the lower surface of the cooler body, and such that the sealing member fluid-tightly closes the gap.

Abstract: A sensor device includes a sensor section having a plurality of sensor elements sensing a physical quantity regarding a magnetic flux collecting module, an output circuit generating and outputting an output signal including data signals respectively corresponding to sensing values from the sensor elements, and an ECU obtaining the output signal. The ECU includes an abnormality determiner identifying an abnormal sensor element. When at least two of the plurality of sensor sections respectively have at least one normal sensor element, a sub-sensor section transmits the output signal therefrom to the ECU at a shifted output timing from an output timing of the output signal from a main sensor section. The amount of such a shift of the output timing is shorter than one signal cycle of the output signal.

Abstract: A gas detection element for detection of a measurement target gas is provided. The gas detection element includes a gas detection layer including a chemochromic pigment; and a spacer. The spacer is permeable to the measurement target gas, is disposed on a first surface of the gas detection layer, and has an area smaller than an area of the gas detection layer.

Abstract: A motor control device is provided with a plurality of power converters and a plurality of microcomputers, and controls driving of a motor that has a plurality of sets of windings. The microcomputers perform initial check of components in respective circuits after activation. The microcomputers prohibit driving of the motor by a circuit determined to be abnormal during the initial inspection. When two or more circuits are determined to be normal in the initial check, the microcomputers start driving of the motor by synchronizing the timing between the two or more circuits determined to be normal. When only one circuit is determined to be normal in the initial check, the microcomputers start driving of the motor by the one circuit determined to be normal.

Abstract: In a standard process for determining an unknown sample, fluorescent substances are determined from respective fluorescence characteristics and model coefficients are calculated from spectrum ranges of the fluorescence characteristics of the determined fluorescent substances. An unknown sample is measured after reading of the model coefficients, whereby a target value of the unknown sample is obtained.