Abstract: A drive system of an electric vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a generating motor provided so as to be able to generate electricity by receiving motive force from the internal combustion engine; and a travel motor provided so as to be able to be driven by electric power generated by the generating motor, and the drive system is configured so as to be able to switch a series hybrid mode and an engine direct connected mode, the series hybrid mode being a mode in which, while the internal combustion engine and the drive wheel are linked via a first clutch so as to be unlinkable/linkable, the travel motor and the drive wheel are linked via a second clutch different from the first clutch so as to be unlinkable/linkable, and the travel motor is used as a drive power source such that the electric vehicle travels by transmitting motive force from the travel motor to the drive wheel, the engine direct connected mode being a mode in which at least one of the internal combustion engine and the generator

Abstract: A sliding spline shaft device of the present invention includes a male spline and a female spline that is fitted to the male spline in an axially slidable manner, and at least one of the splines has a surface processed layer. The surface processed layer includes an undercoat layer, an intermediate layer containing phosphate, and a topcoat layer containing solid lubricant, in this order. The undercoat layer contains iron nitride and/or iron carbide. Thus, the surface of a base material has high hardness. As a result, microscopic deformation of the sliding surface is reduced, and increase in a real contact area is suppressed, whereby stick-slip is prevented.

Abstract: A liquid developer comprising: a toner particle containing binder resin; a carrier liquid; and a basic toner particle dispersing agent, wherein the basic toner particle dispersing agent is a primary amine, an acid value of the binder resin is at least 10 mg KOH/g, an acid value of a component having a molecular weight of not more than 2,000 contained in the binder resin is not more than 5 mg KOH/g, and a hydroxyl value of the component having a molecular weight of not more than 2,000 contained in the binder resin is not more than 10 mg KOH/g.

Abstract: A rangefinder includes a light emitting part, a light receiving part, a calculating part that calculates the distance from a reflective object, and a control part. The calculating part has a received light intensity determining part, a peak detecting part, and a distance calculating part, and a distance determining part. The control part controls at least one of the intensity of the pulsed light, the sensitivity of the light receiving part to received light, and a position of the region of interest so that a first received light intensity is obtained as the received light intensity of each of the plurality of times of flight at least once, and a second received light intensity having a higher S/N ratio is obtained as the received light intensity of each of the plurality of times of flight at least once.

Abstract: A light-emitting element drive device for driving a light-emitting element includes a capacitor that is charged by a power supply and is for supplying a current to the light-emitting element, a first wire for allowing the current to flow from the capacitor to the light-emitting element, a second wire through which a current that is output from the light-emitting element flows, a first switch for switching a state of the capacitor between a charged state in which the capacitor is charged by the power supply and a discharged state in which the current is supplied from the capacitor to the light-emitting element, a diode that is reversely connected to the first wire and the second wire in parallel with the light emitting element, and a resistance element connected in series with the diode. The diode is a body diode included in a field-effect transistor.

Abstract: A liquid developer containing: a toner containing a binder resin; a carrier liquid; and a basic toner dispersing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a polylactic acid, the polylactic acid has an acid value of at least 5 mg KOH/g, and a content of the polylactic acid in the binder resin is at least 50 mass %.

Abstract: A liquid developer comprising: a toner particle containing binder resin; a carrier liquid; and a basic toner particle dispersing agent, wherein the basic toner particle dispersing agent is a primary amine, an acid value of the binder resin is at least 10 mg KOH/g, an acid value of a component having a molecular weight of not more than 2,000 contained in the binder resin is not more than 5 mg KOH/g, and a hydroxyl value of the component having a molecular weight of not more than 2,000 contained in the binder resin is not more than 10 mg KOH/g.

Abstract: A liquid developer comprising a toner particle, a carrier liquid, and a basic toner particle dispersing agent, wherein the toner particle contains a polyester resin A, and the polyester resin A contains at least one monomer unit selected from the group consisting of monomer units derived from aliphatic monocarboxylic acids having from 1 to 6 carbons and monomer units derived from aromatic monocarboxylic acids having from 7 to 12 carbons.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a client device and a server device. The client device includes a transmitter that transmits, to the server device, a request to acquire information for connecting to an external device that provides an external service. The server device includes a storage that stores attributes of accounts of the external service, and the information for connecting to the external device by using the accounts; a receiver that receives the acquisition request from the client device; an identifier that identifies candidate accounts to be used when the client device receives the external service, the candidate accounts being identified based on information elements and the attributes, the information elements being included in the acquisition request and identifying the accounts; and a transmitter that transmits, to the client device, the information for connecting to the external device by using the identified candidate accounts.

Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, a plurality of rolling elements, a cage configured to rollably hold the plurality of rolling elements, and a shield. An inner peripheral surface of at least one axial end portion of the outer ring is provided with a large-diameter part, which has a diameter larger than an inner diameter of the outer ring, opens outward in an axial direction, and has an axial width greater than an axial width of the shield. An outer shape surface of the shield is configured by a plurality of circular arcs having a same central angle and equidistantly arranged on a circumference and a plurality of chords connecting adjacent circular arcs each other. The shield is press-fitted and fixed to the large-diameter part.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is in communication with electronic devices via a network to manage a license of a program used in the electronic devices. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that collects usage information indicating a usage status of each of the electronic devices. The circuitry displays a screen that selectably displays a list of the electronic devices including the collected usage information on a terminal device in communication with the information processing apparatus. The circuitry assigns the license to an electronic device selected from the list of the electronic devices.

Abstract: A liner includes dome sections having outer surfaces along an uniform stress surface at both ends in an axial direction, and nozzles are mounted on the dome section by introducing nozzle flanges into pedestal sections of apexes of the dome sections. Then, ring-shaped caps having the same linear expansion coefficient as the liner and inner surfaces in a curved surface shape of outer surfaces of the dome sections and the nozzle flanges are mounted on boundary portions between the nozzle flanges and the pedestal sections. In forming a fiber layer after that, a helical winding layer is formed first by winding a fiber bundle disposed at the dome sections to cover the dome sections while including the nozzle flanges.

Abstract: A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, a plurality of rolling elements, a cage configured to rollably hold the plurality of rolling elements, and a shield. An inner peripheral surface of at least one axial end portion of the outer ring is provided with a large-diameter part, which has a diameter larger than an inner diameter of the outer ring, opens outward in an axial direction, and has an axial width greater than an axial width of the shield. An outer shape surface of the shield is configured by a plurality of circular arcs having a same central angle and equidistantly arranged on a circumference and a plurality of chords connecting adjacent circular arcs each other. The shield is press-fitted and fixed to the large-diameter part.

Abstract: A liner includes dome sections having outer surfaces along an uniform stress surface at both ends in an axial direction, and nozzles are mounted on the dome section by introducing nozzle flanges into pedestal sections of apexes of the dome sections. Then, ring-shaped caps having the same linear expansion coefficient as the liner and inner surfaces in a curved surface shape of outer surfaces of the dome sections and the nozzle flanges are mounted on boundary portions between the nozzle flanges and the pedestal sections. In forming a fiber layer after that, a helical winding layer is formed first by winding a fiber bundle disposed at the dome sections to cover the dome sections while including the nozzle flanges.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus; and an electronic device. The information processing apparatus executes a process including managing configuration information required for installing an application in the electronic device, the configuration information including a list of applications to be installed, license information required for installing the application, and status information of the configuration information, managed in association with each other, the status information indicating a status before execution of the configuration information is reserved or a status in which execution of the configuration information is reserved; and storing the application.

Abstract: A service provision system includes a processor configured to provide a predetermined service based on first authentication information issued by an external first authentication unit. The processor is configured to implement a notification unit that sends to a user of the predetermined service a notification of third authentication information for obtaining second authentication information different from the first authentication information, an issue unit that issues the second authentication information in response to an issue request of the second authentication information including the third authentication information, and a second authentication unit that verifies authenticity of a use request of the predetermined service including one of the first authentication information and the second authentication information.

Abstract: An information processing system including at least one information processing apparatus includes an access control unit configured to receive a request from a service use apparatus to a service providing apparatus, to give, in a case where the request includes information of a completed authentication, based on setup information in which a type of giving information to be given to the request is set, the giving information of the type set in the setup information, and to send the request to the service providing apparatus; and an information providing unit configured to administer the giving information corresponding to the information of the completed authentication, and to provide the giving information corresponding to the information of the completed authentication received from the access control unit to the access control unit.

Abstract: A seeding device 1 includes a seeder 3 that jets out a jet flow 2 containing oil particles and gas therein, and a tubular body 5, 23 surrounding the jet flow 2. The distance X from a starting end S of the jet flow 2 to the tip end T of the tubular body 5, 23 is set so that the progressing rate of atomization of the oil particles at the tip end T of the tubular body 5, 23 is a predetermined rate or less.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a service utilizing device and at least one information processing device to provide a service for the service utilizing device. A temporary code issuing unit to issue a temporary code is provided in the information processing device. A device authentication token generation unit is provided in the service utilizing device and generates a device authentication token by using the temporary code obtained from the information processing device. A device authentication ticket issuing unit is provided in the information processing device and verifies whether the device authentication token obtained from the service utilizing device is valid by using the temporary code and issues a device authentication ticket depending on a verification result. An access unit is provided in the service utilizing device and accesses a resource in the information processing device by using the device authentication ticket obtained from the information processing device.

Abstract: A data processing system including a data processing apparatus, includes a user data storing unit that stores user data of a user who uses a first service, the user data including first authentication data used for logging in the first service and user specifying data; a determining unit that determines, when the user who uses the first service sets second authentication data used for logging in a second service different from the first service, user specifying data usable as the second authentication data from the user specifying data included in the user data; and a management unit that sets the user specifying data determined to be usable as the second authentication data in the user data of the user who uses the first service as the second authentication data, and manages the user data as user data of the user who uses the first service and the second service.