Abstract: A manufacturing method of an animal litter box includes: a mold preparation process of preparing a mold for molding a resin molding product that forms at least a part of the animal litter box and has a urinary contact portion, the mold including an injection hole for injecting resin; a resin injecting process of injecting the resin from the injection hole; and a smoothing process of smoothing the resin of the urinary contact portion, the resin facing an inner opening of the injection hole, after the resin injecting process.

Abstract: A field effect transistor comprising: a non-doped diamond layer which has a hydrogen-terminated surface; first and second p+diamond layers which are formed on the non-doped diamond layer and sandwich a hydrogen-terminated region; a source electrode which is formed on the first p+diamond layer and is made of metal; a drain electrode which is formed on the second p+diamond layer and is made of metal; an insulating layer which is formed on the hydrogen-terminated region of the non-doped diamond layer; and a gate electrode which is formed on the insulating layer, a mutual conductance being equal to or higher than 0.5 mS/mm at room temperatures, after an X-ray is applied for an amount of 5 Mgy.

Abstract: An animal litter box includes: a tray housing including a urine passage portion and an insertion opening; and a tray including an absorbent-body placement surface. The urine passage portion has holes through which urine pass downward. The insertion opening is formed in a front surface of the tray housing. On the absorbent-body placement surface, an absorbent body for absorbing urine that has passed through the holes is placed. The tray is housed in the tray housing from the insertion opening in such a way that the tray is capable of being pulled out forward. The tray is capable of being housed in the tray housing with an orientation of the tray in the front-back direction reversed. The tray includes an identification portion in a part of the tray other than the absorbent-body placement surface, and the identification portion is for identifying one side and another side in the front-back direction.

Abstract: An absorbent sheet for a pet toilet is provided. The pet toilet includes: a sheet accommodating portion that accommodates the absorbent sheet in a space surrounded by a bottom portion and side walls standing from the bottom portion; and an excretion receiving portion that receives excretions above the sheet accommodating portion and guides the excretions to the sheet accommodating portion. The absorbent sheet includes: a topsheet on a top side of the absorbent sheet and that includes fibers; a backsheet on a back side of the absorbent sheet; an absorber between the topsheet and the backsheet; a central region in which the absorber is disposed in plan view; and side regions that extend outside the central region and in which at least the topsheet is disposed.

Abstract: A toilet for animal, including: an upper container having a plurality of holes formed on a bottom portion, the plurality of holes penetrating in an up-down direction; a lower container that includes a receiving section receiving excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes, gravity of the upper container not acting on the lower container; and an output unit that outputs a signal changing according to an amount of the excrement received by the receiving section.

Abstract: A burner work measurement system configured to measure work using a burner is provided. The burner work measurement system includes one or more cameras configured to capture the work and a control unit configured to perform computing processing on images captured by the cameras, the control unit is configured to create work data obtained by calculating, based on the images captured by the cameras, at least one of a positional relation between a work object and the burner or flame, a positional relation between the work object and a brazing filler metal, and a positional relation between the burner or the flame and the brazing filler metal.

Abstract: An animal toilet (1) has: a main body (10) provided with a urine passing section (12); and a tray (20) on which an absorbent body (200) for absorbing urine passing through the urine passing section (12) is disposed. In a lower end portion on one side in the front-rear direction of the main body (10), an opening (19) for accommodating the tray (10) is formed. In the left-right direction, the length of the opening (19) is longer than the length of the tray (20). In a state where the tray (20) is accommodated in the main body (10), both a bottom section (15d) of the main body and a bottom section (27) of the tray are grounded.

Abstract: An animal litter box (100) includes: a litter-box main portion (1) including an upper container (10) and a lower container (30); an output main portion (60) including an output portion (61); and a position regulator. The upper container (10) includes a plurality of holes (h) passing through the upper container in the up-down direction, and the lower container (30) includes a reception portion (32) that receives excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes (h). The output portion (61) includes: a top surface (61a) that comes into contact with the litter-box main portion (1); and a side wall (61b) extending from an edge of the top surface (61a) in the up-down direction. The output portion (61) outputs a signal in accordance with a magnitude of a force that acts on the top surface (61a). The position regulator includes: a litter-box-side regulating portion (26) disposed on the litter-box main portion (1); and an output-side regulating portion (62) disposed on the output main portion (60).

Abstract: A toilet for an animal having an up-down direction includes an upper container including a bottom part in which a plurality of holes that penetrate in the up-down direction are formed, and a lower container provided below the upper container. An outer periphery of each of the holes being surrounded with cross ribs along a direction intersecting with the up-down direction and longitudinal ribs along a direction intersecting with the up-down direction and the cross ribs. An uppermost part of the longitudinal ribs is higher than an uppermost part of the cross ribs. A part of the cross ribs connected to the longitudinal ribs being provided with an upper-side inclined surface inclined obliquely downward from the longitudinal ribs.

Abstract: An animal litter box includes: a tray housing including a urine passage portion and an insertion opening; and a tray including an absorbent-body placement surface. The urine passage portion has holes through which urine pass downward. The insertion opening is formed in a front surface of the tray housing. On the absorbent-body placement surface, an absorbent body for absorbing urine that has passed through the holes is placed. The tray is housed in the tray housing from the insertion opening in such a way that the tray is capable of being pulled out forward. The tray is capable of being housed in the tray housing with an orientation of the tray in the front-back direction reversed. The tray includes an identification portion in a part of the tray other than the absorbent-body placement surface, and the identification portion is for identifying one side and another side in the front-back direction.

Abstract: An absorbent sheet for a pet toilet is provided. The pet toilet includes: a sheet accommodating portion that accommodates the absorbent sheet in a space surrounded by a bottom portion and side walls standing from the bottom portion; and an excretion receiving portion that receives excretions above the sheet accommodating portion and guides the excretions to the sheet accommodating portion. The absorbent sheet includes: a topsheet on a top side of the absorbent sheet and that includes fibers; a backsheet on a back side of the absorbent sheet; an absorber between the topsheet and the backsheet; a central region in which the absorber is disposed in plan view; and side regions that extend outside the central region and in which at least the topsheet is disposed.

Abstract: A toilet for animal, including: an upper container having a plurality of holes formed on a bottom portion, the plurality of holes penetrating in an up-down direction; a lower container that includes a receiving section receiving excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes, gravity of the upper container not acting on the lower container; and an output unit that outputs a signal changing according to an amount of the excrement received by the receiving section.

Abstract: An animal litter box (100) includes: a litter-box main portion (1) including an upper container (10) and a lower container (30); an output main portion (60) including an output portion (61); and a position regulator. The upper container (10) includes a plurality of holes (h) passing through the upper container in the up-down direction, and the lower container (30) includes a reception portion (32) that receives excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes (h). The output portion (61) includes: a top surface (61a) that comes into contact with the litter-box main portion (1); and a side wall (61b) extending from an edge of the top surface (61a) in the up-down direction. The output portion (61) outputs a signal in accordance with a magnitude of a force that acts on the top surface (61a). The position regulator includes: a litter-box-side regulating portion (26) disposed on the litter-box main portion (1); and an output-side regulating portion (62) disposed on the output main portion (60).

Abstract: A toilet for animal, including: an upper container having a plurality of holes formed on a bottom portion, the plurality of holes penetrating in an up-down direction; a lower container that includes a receiving section receiving excrement that has passed through the plurality of holes, gravity of the upper container not acting on the lower container; and an output unit that outputs a signal changing according to an amount of the excrement received by the receiving section.

Abstract: An animal litter box includes an inner space where an animal performs excretion and an absorbent-body arrangement portion. The inner space is surrounded by at least a bottom surface and a wall portion. The bottom surface receives excrement. The wall portion rises in the height direction from a periphery of the bottom surface. The absorbent-body arrangement portion is for arranging of an absorbent body that absorbs excrement, and is provided below the inner space in the height direction. The longitudinal central position of the inner space is located shifted from the longitudinal central position of the absorbent-body arrangement portion.

Abstract: An animal litter box has a front-back direction, a left-right direction, and a height direction. The animal litter box includes: a main body that receives excrement of an animal; and a cover that is removably mounted to an upper portion of the main body. The cover includes walls on front-back-direction sides and on left-right-direction sides. The cover includes an open top at a ceiling, the cover includes a cutout in at least one of the walls. The cutout serves as an entrance/exit when the animal enters or exits the animal litter. The cover includes an extending bottom that extends from a lower end portion of the cutout to an inner side of the at least one of walls.

Abstract: An animal toilet having a front-rear direction, a right-left direction and a height direction including: a urine passing part that is provided with a plurality of holes through which urine passes and on which an excrement treatment material is to be placed; an absorbent body setting part that is provided below the urine passing part and on which an absorbent body is to be placed; an opening part that is provided above the urine passing part and allows an animal to come in and out; and side walls provided on both right and left sides of the opening part, a maximum height of the side wall in a forward area that is located forward of a center position in the front-rear direction being smaller than a minimum height of the side wall in a rearward area that is located rearward of the center position, a maximum opening width of the opening part in the forward area being larger than a maximum opening width of the opening part in the rearward area.

Abstract: A bonded body includes a supporting body composed of a ceramic, a bonding layer provided over a surface of the supporting body and composed of one or more material selected from the group consisting of mullite, alumina, tantalum pentoxide, titanium oxide and niobium pentoxide, and a piezoelectric single crystal substrate bonded with the bonding layer. The surface of the supporting body has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.5 nm or larger and 5.0 nm or smaller.

Abstract: An animal toilet includes: a front-rear direction, a right-left direction, and a height direction; an upper container that is to be placed with excrement treating material on a bottom portion having a plurality of holes through which urine passes, the bottom portion being a part positioned lowest inside the upper container, in a state where an absorbent body has been placed in a tray, a central position of the bottom portion of the upper container being arranged nearer to a rear side than a central position of the absorbent body, in the front-rear direction; the tray that is to be placed with the absorbent body that absorbs urine that has passed through the holes; and a lower container put below the upper container, the lower container storing the tray.