Abstract: A radiative cooling device that can cool a cooling target appropriately with cost reduction of its light reflective layer. An infrared radiative layer for radiating infrared light from a radiative surface and a light reflective layer located on the opposite side of the presence side of the radiative surface of the infrared radiative layer are provided in a mutually stacked manner. The light reflective layer is arranged such that a first layer made of silver or silver alloy and a second layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy are stacked, with the first layer being disposed on the side close to the infrared radiative layer.

Abstract: A water-using apparatus includes a water-feeding unit configured to feed water, a water-treating unit connected to the water-feeding unit by a pipe and being configured to perform a function in which ionic substances contained in water fed from the water-feeding unit are removed by an electrical deionization unit, a water-using unit connected to the water-treating unit by a pipe and configured to use water having flowed through the water-treating unit, a drainpipe through which water with increased concentration of ionic substances removed by the water-treating unit is drained, and a controller configured to control a passage for water fed from the water-feeding unit and to cause water with increased concentration of ionic substances to be drained through the drainpipe.

Abstract: An ion removal apparatus according to this disclosure performs a desalination treatment on a liquid and includes: a first electrode guide having an inlet allowing the liquid to flow in, a first electrode holder holding a first electrode that adsorbs an ion in the liquid, and an inflow passage serving as a flow passage connecting the inlet and the first electrode holder to one another; and a second electrode guide having an outlet allowing the liquid to flow out, a second electrode holder allowing the liquid passing through the first electrode holder to flow in and holding a second electrode that adsorbs the ion in the liquid, and an outflow passage serving as a flow passage connecting the outlet and the second electrode holder to one another.

Abstract: A method of controlling a hybrid vehicle including an engine, a motor, and a friction engagement element provided between the engine and the motor so as to be engageable and disengageable, is provided. An engine startup control for starting the engine stopped is performed to switch a traveling mode. The method includes raising an engine speed by cranking of the motor, while shifting the friction engagement element from a disengaged state to an engaged state, when the engine startup control is started, temporarily reducing an engaging torque of the friction engagement element, after the engine speed is raised by the cranking of the motor and before the engine speed coincides with a motor rotational speed, and raising the engaging torque to set the friction engagement element to a fully engaged state, after the temporarily reducing the engaging torque and the engine speed coincides with the motor rotational speed.

Abstract: A controller as a control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle determines whether or not to perform switching from a first traveling mode in which a hybrid vehicle is caused to travel using torque of a motor without using torque of an engine to a second traveling mode in which the hybrid vehicle is caused to travel using at least the torque of the engine. The controller, when determining that switching is to be performed from the first traveling mode to the second traveling mode, performs control to reduce output torque of the motor by a predetermined amount. After this control, the controller shifts a first clutch from a released state to an engaged state so that the torque of the motor is transmitted to the engine via the first clutch, and cranks the engine using the motor to start the engine.

Abstract: A radiative cooling device and a radiative cooling method that effectively suppress ultraviolet light absorption. The radiative cooling device includes an ultraviolet reflection layer that reflects ultraviolet light UV, a light reflection layer that reflects visible light and infrared light, and an infrared radiative layer that radiates infrared light IR. Infrared light IR is radiated form a radiative surface. The ultraviolet reflection layer, the infrared radiative layer and the light reflection layer are laminated in this order as viewed from the side of the radiative surface.

Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle control system, when a first traveling mode using torque of an electric motor is switched to a second traveling mode using torque of an engine, a controller performs an engine start control by applying an engagement pressure to a first clutch and by cranking the engine by the electric motor, so as to start the engine. Specifically, the controller obtains a predicted start time and an actual start time by the engine start control, and corrects the engagement pressure so as to decrease the engagement pressure applied to the first clutch at a subsequent time of starting the engine, when the actual start time is shorter than the predicted start time.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: selecting a single or plurality of shops where inspection or repair of a vehicle is capable of being performed; acquiring a single or plurality of destinations; and calculating a total time length of a first time length, a second time length and a third time length, about all combinations of a first shop and a first destination, the first shop being one of the single or plurality of shops, the first destination being one of the single or plurality of destinations, the first time length being a time length for movement of the vehicle from a departure point to the first shop, the second time length being a time length for the inspection or repair at the first shop, the third time length being a time length for movement from the first shop to the first destination.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring a first place where a demand for a dispatch service is predicted to be generated; and creating a first schedule of inspection or repair of a first vehicle that is used for the dispatch service, such that the inspection or the repair of the first vehicle is performed at a first shop and then the first vehicle arrives at the first place on a date and hour when the demand for the dispatch service is predicted to be generated, the first shop being a shop that is around the first place and where the inspection or the repair of the first vehicle is capable of being performed.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle controlling method is provided. In response to an engine startup demand, when a vehicle target driving force is below a given value, an instruction hydraulic pressure for a hydraulic control circuit is set to a first pressure at which an increase rate in an engagement pressure at a start of engaging of a friction engagement element becomes below a given rate and maintained for a given time period, then set to a second pressure at which an engine-startup engagement pressure is applied to the friction engagement element and maintained until the engine startup is completed, and then set to a third pressure for setting the friction engagement element to an engaged state. When the target driving force is above the given value, the instruction hydraulic pressure is set to the second pressure and maintained until the engine startup is completed, and then set to the third pressure.

Abstract: Provided is a radiative cooling device that provides coloration of the radiative surface while maximally avoiding reduction in its radiative cooling performance due to absorption of solar light. An infrared radiative layer for radiating infrared light from a radiative surface and a light reflective layer disposed on the side opposite to the presence side of the radiative surface of the infrared radiative layer are provided in a mutually stacked state. The light reflective layer is arranged such that a first metal layer made of silver or silver alloy and having a thickness equal to or greater than 10 nm and equal to or less than 100 nm, a transparent dielectric layer and a second metal layer reflecting light transmitted through the first metal layer and the transparent dielectric layer are stacked in this order on the side closer to the infrared radiative layer.

Abstract: A shift control device for an automatic transmission includes: an engagement control unit that controls an engagement hydraulic pressure supplied to an engagement hydraulic chamber of an engagement side friction element; a hydraulic pressure detecting unit that detects the engagement hydraulic pressure; a reference setting unit that calculates a predicted value of the engagement hydraulic pressure during shifting, based on a rising characteristic of the engagement hydraulic pressure from when supply of the engagement hydraulic pressure is started to when engagement of the engagement side friction element is started, and sets the predicted value as a reference hydraulic pressure; and an engagement start detecting unit that detects an engagement start time point of the engagement side friction element, based on a difference between the hydraulic pressure detected by the hydraulic pressure detecting unit during the shifting and the reference hydraulic pressure.

Abstract: Provided is a radiative cooling device that provides coloration of the radiative surface while maximally avoiding reduction in its radiative cooling performance due to absorption of solar light. An infrared radiative layer for radiating infrared light from a radiative surface and a light reflective layer disposed on the side opposite to the presence side of the radiative surface of the infrared radiative layer are provided in a mutually stacked state. The light reflective layer is arranged such that a first metal layer made of silver or silver alloy and having a thickness equal to or greater than 10 nm and equal to or less than 100 nm, a transparent dielectric layer and a second metal layer reflecting light transmitted through the first metal layer and the transparent dielectric layer are stacked in this order on the side closer to the infrared radiative layer.

Abstract: A controller as a control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle determines whether or not to perform switching from a first traveling mode in which a hybrid vehicle is caused to travel using torque of a motor without using torque of an engine to a second traveling mode in which the hybrid vehicle is caused to travel using at least the torque of the engine. The controller, when determining that switching is to be performed from the first traveling mode to the second traveling mode, performs control to reduce output torque of the motor by a predetermined amount. After this control, the controller shifts a first clutch from a released state to an engaged state so that the torque of the motor is transmitted to the engine via the first clutch, and cranks the engine using the motor to start the engine.

Abstract: A heat-radiating light source including a heat-radiating layer and a substrate laminated thereon for heating the heat-radiating layer is disclosed. A heat-radiating layer and a substrate for heating the heat-radiating layer are laminated. In the heat-radiating layer, there are provided a radiation control portion and a radiating transparent oxide layer, the radiation control portion having an MIM lamination portion including a pair of platinum layers juxtaposed along lamination direction and a resonating transparent oxide layer formed of a transparent oxide and disposed between the pair of platinum layers, the radiation control portion and the radiating transparent oxide layer are laminated with the radiation control portion and the radiating transparent oxide layer are disposed closer to the substrate in this order. The resonating transparent oxide layer R has a thickness providing a resonance wavelength equal to or smaller than 4 ?m.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle (10) has, as drive sources of the hybrid vehicle (10), an engine (20) and a motor (40) mutually coupled via a clutch (30). An engine start controller (1) for the hybrid vehicle (10) includes: a clutch transmission torque control section (61) that controls transmission torque of the clutch (30) on the basis of a predicted engine speed value at the time of starting the engine (20) using the motor (40) via the clutch (30); and a predicted engine speed value setting section (62) that sets the predicted engine speed value on the basis of a stop crank position of the engine (20).

Abstract: An electronic device storage rack is equipped with a pair of first columns provided at intervals in a width direction; a pair of second columns provided at intervals in the width direction at positions away from the pair of first columns on a back side; a plurality of pairs of rails which connect the first column and the second column to support the electronic device main body to be slidable in a depth direction; a first fixing piece which is movable between an abutment position capable of abutting on the first column from the front side on the front side of the electronic device main body and a non-abutment position disposed between the first columns; and a second fixing piece which is movable between the abutment position capable of abutting on the second column from the back side on the back side of the electronic device main body and the non-abutment position disposed between the second columns.

Abstract: A thermal emission source is provided that has a structure capable of suppressing deterioration of an optical assembly over time. The thermal emission source includes an optical assembly (1) having an optical structure in which a member made of a semiconductor has a refractive index distribution so as to resonate with light of a wavelength shorter than a wavelength that corresponds to an absorption edge corresponding to a band gap of the semiconductor. The optical assembly (1) includes a coating structure (30) with a coating material that differs from the semiconductor of refractive portions (10) and through which light of a wavelength included in a wavelength range from visible light to far infrared rays can be transmitted.

Abstract: A radiative cooling device having high flexibility that can be retrofitted to an existing outdoor facility. An infrared radiative layer for radiating infrared light from a radiative surface and a light reflective layer disposed on the side opposite to the presence side of the radiative surface of the infrared radiative layer are provided. The infrared radiative layer is a resin material layer whose thickness is adjusted to discharge a greater thermal radiation energy than absorbed solar light energy in a wavelength band ranging from 8 ?m to 14 ?m.

Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle control system, when a first traveling mode using torque of an electric motor is switched to a second traveling mode using torque of an engine, a controller performs an engine start control by applying an engagement pressure to a first clutch and by cranking the engine by the electric motor, so as to start the engine. Specifically, the controller obtains a predicted start time and an actual start time by the engine start control, and corrects the engagement pressure so as to decrease the engagement pressure applied to the first clutch at a subsequent time of starting the engine, when the actual start time is shorter than the predicted start time.