Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes a drive device (drive unit), a processor (controller) that controls the drive device, and a communication unit that acquires, through communication, information about an electric vehicle and a battery (first battery). The processor adjusts a position of the drive device based on the information that is acquired through the communication unit, and performs control of replacing the battery with a battery (second battery) by controlling the drive device whose position is adjusted.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes: a battery replacement station where removal of a first battery from the electrically powered vehicle and attachment of a second battery to the electrically powered vehicle are performed; a storage that stores the second battery, and a storage space that is provided at a position separate from the storage and stores the first battery.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus replaces a first battery attached to a vehicle body of an electrically powered vehicle with a charged second battery. The battery replacement apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, based on a fact that a size of the second battery is specified, size information indicating the specified size; a mounting table that moves relative to the vehicle body, with the second battery mounted on the mounting table, for attaching the second battery of the specified size to the vehicle body; and an adjustment unit that adjusts, based on the size information, a mount position where the second battery is mounted on the mounting table.

Abstract: Provided is a Zn—Al—Mg alloy coated checkered steel sheet having on the sheet surface thereof convex part and flat part, wherein: the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, and when observing a cross section of cutting edge orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the convex part and taken along a sheet thickness direction at a central part in the longitudinal direction of the convex part, a layer thickness ratio of the coating layer of the flat part on left and right of the convex part (layer thickness of left coating layer/layer thickness of right coating layer) is from 0.2 to 5.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes a detection device that detects position and orientation of a battery (first battery), a battery mount where a battery (second battery) is placed, the battery mount being capable of being raised, and an adjuster that adjusts position and orientation of the battery that is placed on the battery mount. The battery mount allows the battery to be attached to a vehicle body from below the vehicle body, by being raised below the vehicle body in a state where the battery is placed on the battery mount. The adjuster adjusts the position and the orientation of the battery placed on the battery mount, based on the position and the orientation of the battery detected by the detection device.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes a detection device (detector) that detects position and orientation of a battery (first battery), a battery mount where the battery that is removed from an electric vehicle is placed, the battery mount being driven below the electric vehicle, and a processor (controller) that controls driving of the battery mount. The processor controls position and orientation of the battery mount based on the position and the orientation of the battery detected by the detection device. Furthermore, the processor performs control of removing the battery from the electric vehicle, in a state where the position and the orientation of the battery mount are controlled.

Abstract: A battery replacement apparatus includes: a battery replacement station including a floor on which an electrically powered vehicle can be stopped; a battery mounting table on which the first battery and the second battery can be mounted and which is movable below the electrically powered vehicle in a vertical direction; and a raising and lowering unit movable below the electrically powered vehicle in the vertical direction independently of the battery mounting table. The raising and lowering unit is movable between a raised position to which at least a part of the electrically powered vehicle has been moved upward from the floor, and a separated position separated downward from the electrically powered vehicle. The battery mounting table is capable of moving up to a position where the battery mounting table contacts a bottom surface of the first battery when the raising and lowering unit is located at the raised position.

Abstract: An electrically powered vehicle includes: a vehicle body including a power converter that operates a motor; and a first battery that is attached in a replaceable manner to the vehicle body and supplies electric power to the power converter. The vehicle body includes a first connector for connecting to the first battery. The first battery includes a second connector to be connected to the first connector. The electrically powered vehicle further includes a lock mechanism that locks connection between the first connector and the second connector when the connection between the first connector and the second connector is completed.

Abstract: An electrically powered vehicle includes: an accessory device capable of communicating with an external device; a power converter that operates a motor; a first relay and a second relay; a control device that controls operation of the first relay and the second relay; a first battery that supplies electric power to the accessory device when the first relay is in ON state; and a second battery that supplies electric power to the power converter when the second relay is in ON state. When the second relay is in ON state and the electrically powered vehicle receives a battery replacement instruction to replace the second battery with a charged battery, the control device controls the first relay into ON state and controls the second relay into OFF state.

Abstract: A container filling and sealing apparatus includes a first conveyor having m lanes and configured to convey articles in the m lanes; a container supply device configured to place containers over the articles, respectively; a container reverser configured to reverse the containers so as to insert the articles inside the containers while the containers are covering the articles; a second conveyor arranged downstream of the first conveyor and configured to convey the containers containing the articles in n lanes which are less than the m lanes, n being a natural number of 2 or more; a delivery conveyor provided between the first conveyor and the second conveyor and configured to receive from upstream m containers as a unit containing the articles and deliver downstream n containers as a unit; and a sealing device configured to seal an opening in each of the containers conveyed by the second conveyor.

Abstract: In response to a person touching a portion indicated by reference sign 1A on a desk 91 installed in a room R, for example, a control device 60 identifies this touched area as an identified area 80 that has been contaminated by the person. In this case, the control device 60 controls a drive mechanism 30 to direct a light source 20 to this identified area 80. The area touched by the person in the room R is thus UV-irradiated and sterilized.

Abstract: A surface-treated metal material includes a metal sheet, a plating layer formed on the metal sheet and containing aluminum, magnesium, and zinc, and a composite coating formed on a surface of the plating layer, the composite coating including an organic silicon compound, one or two of a zirconium compound and a titanium compound, a phosphoric acid compound, a fluorine compound, and a vanadium compound, wherein, when a surface of the composite coating is analyzed at a spot size of ?30 ?m using micro-fluorescent X-rays, a maximum value of V/Zn, which is a mass ratio of a V content to a Zn content, is 0.010 to 0.100.

Abstract: A humidifier includes a housing, a humidifying rotor, and an irradiator. The housing is formed with an air passage through which air passes and a water storage tank configured to store water. The humidifying rotor extends over the air passage and the water storage tank. The humidifying rotor rotates so that a portion of the humidifying rotor having absorbed moisture from the water storage tank moves to the air passage and releases the moisture. The irradiator irradiates part of the humidifying rotor with ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An ultraviolet ray radiation apparatus includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a protector. The light emitter emits ultraviolet light. The light receiver outputs a signal varying with an amount of light received. The protector protects the light receiver from ultraviolet light.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes an irradiation device including an LED configured to emit an ultraviolet ray; and includes a heat-dissipating unit configured to dissipate heat of the irradiation device into air.

Abstract: A plated steel material having a plating layer having an average chemical composition containing, in mass %, Zn: more than 50.00%, Al: more than 15.0% and less than 30.0%, Mg: more than 5.0% and less than 15.0%, and Si: 0.25% or more and less than 3.50%, and impurities, and wherein a total amount (?A) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Sn, Bi and In is less than 1.00%, a total amount (?B) of at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Y, La, Ce and Sr is 0.02% or more and less than 0.60%, 2.0?SMg/Si<20.0 (Formula 1), 3.0?Si/?B<24.0 (Formula 2), and 26.0?(Si/?B)×(Mg/Si)<375.0 (Formula 3) are satisfied, and in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the surface of the plating layer, a diffraction intensity ratio R1 defined by R1={I(16.18°)+I(32.69°)}/I(27.0°) (Formula 4) satisfies 2.5<R1 (Formula 5) is used.

Abstract: The plated steel material is a plated steel material including a steel material and a plating layer provided on the surface of the steel material, wherein the plating layer has a predetermined average chemical composition, when the amount of Mg is % Mg and the amount of Al is % Al, % Mg/% Al is 0.80 or more, and a metal structure in a total field of view of 25,000 ?m2 in a vertical cross section which is a cross section in a thickness direction of the plating layer includes 10 to 40 area % of a MgZn2 phase, 10 to 30 area % of an Al—Zn phase with a Zn content of 10% or more, 0 to 15 area % of an Al phase with a Zn content of less than 10%, and 25 area % or more of an Al/MgZn2/Zn ternary eutectic structure.

Abstract: A coated steel product including a base steel, and a coating layer containing a Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer disposed on a surface of the base steel, in which the coating layer has a predetermined chemical composition, the coated steel product including dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less on a surface of the Zn—Al—Mg alloy layer, an area ratio of the dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less being from 30% to 80% within a region of an observable field of view of 5 mm2, and among the dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having a surface roughness Sa of 50 nm or less, a number of dendrite-shaped MgZn2 phase having an area of 0.1 mm2 or more being from 5 to 100 within a region of an observable field of view of 25 mm2.

Abstract: A hot-dip plated steel includes a base steel and a hot-dip plating layer on a surface of the base steel, a chemical composition of the hot-dip plating layer contains, by mass %, Al: 10.00% to 30.00%, Mg: 3.00% to 12.00%, Sn: 0% to 2.00%, Si: 0% to 2.50%, Ca: 0% to 3.00%, Ni: 0% or more and less than 0.25%, Fe: 0% to 5.00%, and the like, a remainder includes Zn and impurities, a metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 5 to 45 area % of an ? phase having a grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 ?m, the metallographic structure of the hot-dip plating layer contains 15 to 70 area % of a MgZn2 phase, and, among the ? phases having the grain diameter of 0.5 to 2 ?m, an area ratio of an ? phase having a (111)?//(0001)MgZn2 orientation relationship to the adjacent MgZn2 phase is 25% to 100%.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel sheet of the present invention includes a base steel sheet and a Ni—Co—Fe alloy-plated layer on at least one surface of the base steel sheet, in which, in the alloy-plated layer, a Ni coating weight is 7.1 to 32.5 g/m2, a Co coating weight is 0.65 to 5.2 g/m2, and a total of the Ni coating weight and the Co coating weight is in a range of 9.0 to 35.0 g/m2. In an outermost layer of the alloy-plated layer, a Co concentration is in a range of 20 to 60 atom %, and a Fe concentration is in a range of 5 to 30 atom %. In the alloy-plated layer, a region having a thickness of 2 ?m or more, in which a total of a Ni concentration and the Co concentration is 10 atom % or more and the Fe concentration is 5 atom % or more, is present, and the base steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, and a ferrite grain size number is 9.0 or more.