Abstract: A prediction model generation apparatus according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: divide a region in which a probability distribution of an objective variable exists into a plurality of small regions according to a property of the objective variable for learning data including the objective variable; model an existence probability that the objective variable belongs to each of the small regions; use the learning data to model, for each of the small regions, a probability distribution related to a possible value of the objective variable in the small region under a condition that the objective variable belongs to the small region; and constructs a prediction model of the objective variable by integrating the modeled probability distribution for each of the small regions using the existence probability.

Abstract: A high pressure dome scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism having fixed and orbiting scrolls to form a compression chamber, a casing housing the compression mechanism, and first and second passage members. The first and second passage members guide low and intermediate pressure fluid from outside of the casing to the compression mechanism. The fixed scroll has a fixed end plate, a fixed wrap, and an outer peripheral wall surrounding the fixed wrap. The fixed end plate has suction and injection passages connected with the first and second passage members to guide the low and intermediate pressure fluid to the compression chamber. The fixed end plate has an attachment portion to which the first and second passage members are attached. The attachment portion is part of a back surface of the fixed end plate and protrudes on the back surface of the fixed end plate.

Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a crankshaft, a bearing rotatably supporting the crankshaft, a casing accommodating the crankshaft and the bearing, an arm supporting the bearing, a fixing portion connected to an end of the arm and fixed to the casing, and first and second pins. The first and second pins are press fitted into first and second holes and fixed to the casing by welding. The first hole is formed in the fixing portion and has a first center disposed at a position overlapping a minimum sectional area portion of the arm. The second hole is formed in the fixing portion and has a second center disposed at a position outside the minimum sectional area portion of the arm. A first force with which the first pin is held by the fixing portion is larger than a second force with which the second pin is held by the fixing portion.

Abstract: A mold die includes: a mold die body that is configured to hold an object to be molded, the object including a substrate and a chip mounted in a central area of the substrate, and that has a cavity which is rectangular in a plan view and which is configured to receive a resin material, the mold die body including: a pot for containing the resin material; a gate disposed at one side of the cavity and configured to allow the resin material to flow into the cavity; and a flow-path restricting mechanism that is disposed on both lateral sides of the cavity that are perpendicular to the one side and that is configured to narrow lateral flow paths, the lateral flow paths being flow paths for the resin material flowing through the cavity in which the chip is not disposed.

Abstract: This precursor sheet for a fuel cell separator comprises a conductive substrate sheet, a dense layer including first graphite particles, and a conduction layer including second graphite particles, wherein the dense layer and the conduction layer include a resin, the first graphite particles have a volume resistivity of 20 m?·cm or greater and a bulk density of 1.7 g/cm3 or greater when compressed at 30 MPa, and the second graphite particles have a volume resistivity of less than 20 m?·cm and a bulk density of 1.5 g/cm3 or greater when compressed at 30 MPa. This precursor sheet for a fuel cell separator provides a fuel cell separator that has excellent shapability and good mechanical strength, conductivity, and gas impermeability.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes an ink tank that contains an ink to be supplied to a printing head that ejects the ink, the ink being injected from an ink bottle. The inkjet printing apparatus further includes an injection assistance member including a first passage and a second passage. The first passage is defined by a first upper end portion opening toward the outside of the ink tank and a first lower end portion opening toward the inside of the ink tank. The second passage is defined by a second upper end portion opening toward the outside of the ink tank and projecting upward less than the first upper end portion and a second lower end portion opening toward the inside of the ink tank and larger than the first lower end portion in terms of a distance from the bottom surface of the ink tank.

Abstract: A mold die includes: a mold die body that is configured to hold an object to be molded, the object including a substrate and a chip mounted in a central area of the substrate, and that has a cavity which is rectangular in a plan view and which is configured to receive a resin material, the mold die body including: a pot for containing the resin material; a gate disposed at one side of the cavity and configured to allow the resin material to flow into the cavity; and a flow-path restricting mechanism that is disposed on both lateral sides of the cavity that are perpendicular to the one side and that is configured to narrow lateral flow paths, the lateral flow paths being flow paths for the resin material flowing through the cavity in which the chip is not disposed.

Abstract: A vehicular battery mounting structure (10) includes a floor panel (14), a battery frame (30) arranged below the floor panel (14), and a bracket (40) provided on both left and right sides of a vehicle, interposed between the floor panel (14) and the battery frame (30). The bracket (40) includes a bottom wall portion (42), an inside flange portion (48) that is on an inside in a vehicle width direction, and an outside flange portion (50) that is on an outside in the vehicle width direction. A shape of the bracket is a generally hat-shape opening upward in the sectional view taken along the vehicle width direction. The battery frame (30) is indirectly or directly fixed to the bottom wall portion (42). The inside and outside flange portions (48, 50) are joined to the floor panel (14) such that a joint strength between the outside flange portion (50) and the floor panel (14) is greater than a joint strength between the inside flange portion (48) and the floor panel (14).

Abstract: A vehicular battery mounting structure (10) includes a floor panel (14), a battery frame (30) arranged below the floor panel (14), and a bracket (40) provided on both left and right sides of a vehicle, interposed between the floor panel (14) and the battery frame (30). The bracket (40) includes a bottom wall portion (42), an inside flange portion (48) that is on an inside in a vehicle width direction, and an outside flange portion (50) that is on an outside in the vehicle width direction. A shape of the bracket is a generally hat-shape opening upward in the sectional view taken along the vehicle width direction. The battery frame (30) is indirectly or directly fixed to the bottom wall portion (42). The inside and outside flange portions (48, 50) are joined to the floor panel (14) such that a joint strength between the outside flange portion (50) and the floor panel (14) is greater than a joint strength between the inside flange portion (48) and the floor panel (14).

Abstract: A vehicle seat including a rod installed between left and right side frames of a seat cushion, wherein the rod is provided with a weakened part which is configured to promote the buckling distortion of the rod in a predetermined direction, wherein the weakened part includes first and second weakened portions which respectively weakens a portion of a surface of the rod facing a first direction and a portion of a surface of the rod facing a second direction opposite to the first direction at an end portion of a side of the rod to which an impact load is inputted, so that the rod is configured to be bent in the first direction and the second direction, and wherein the first weakened portion is formed closer to the side to which the impact load is inputted than the second weakened portion.

Abstract: Crosslinked (meth)acrylamide particles in the form of substantially spherical fine particles having particle sizes of from 1 to 1000 ?m made of a polymer of a N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide and a polyfunctional unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide, wherein the structural units derived from the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide are crosslinked by a crosslink having a structure represented by the formula 1 (wherein X is hydrogen or a methyl group, and each of R8 and R9 is another structural unit derived from the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide and bonded to the nitrogen atom in another structural unit derived from the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide monomer via a methylene group).

Abstract: Crosslinked (meth)acrylamide particles in the form of substantially spherical fine particles having particle sizes of from 1 to 1000 ?m made of a polymer of a N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide and a polyfunctional unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide, wherein the structural units derived from the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide are crosslinked by a crosslink having a structure represented by the formula 1 (wherein X is hydrogen or a methyl group, and each of R8 and R9 is another structural unit derived from the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide and bonded to the nitrogen atom in another structural unit derived from the N-alkoxymethyl(meth)acrylamide monomer via a methylene group).