Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition setting unit configured to set a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition setting unit being configured to set the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of information concerning an association relationship between information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration to the culture vess

Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition generation unit configured to generate a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to-be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition generation unit being configured to generate the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of a learned model, the learned model being learned with use of information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration t

Abstract: An indoor unit includes a housing that houses an electrical-component storage box that includes a body portion, a lid portion, and an engagement mechanism portion that engages the body portion and the lid portion with each other in a detachable manner. The lid portion covers an open region on a side of the body portion. The engagement mechanism portion includes an engagement claw portion provided at one of the body and lid portions and an engagement hole portion into which the claw portion is inserted, and which is formed at the other of the body and lid portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vibrator made of a non-lead-based piezoelectric material and capable of being driven at a sufficient speed with low power consumption, and provides a vibration wave drive device and an electronical device each using the vibrator. To that end, the vibrator according to the present invention includes a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric material and electrodes, and an elastic body, wherein a Pb component contained in the piezoelectric material is less than 1000 ppm, and a resonance frequency fA in a vibration mode A and a resonance frequency fB in a vibration mode B satisfy a relation of an absolute value of (fB?fA)>2 (kHz), the vibration mode A and the vibration mode B generating vibration waves in the elastic body with wave fronts of the vibration waves intersecting each other.

Abstract: Operation of fastening a decorative-panel mounting screw into a screw-fastening hole of an indoor-unit body is facilitated. A decorative panel includes a decorative-panel body, a decorative-panel mounting component, and a decorative-panel mounting screw.

Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric ceramics including crystal grains each including: a first region that is formed of a perovskite-type metal oxide having a crystal structure in which a central element of a unit cell is located at an asymmetrical position; and a second region that is formed of a perovskite-type metal oxide having a crystal structure in which a central element of a unit cell is located at a symmetrical position, and that is present inside the first region, wherein a ratio of a cross-sectional area of the second region to a cross-sectional area of the piezoelectric ceramics is 0.1% or less.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a heat-medium heat exchanger, an air vent valve, a drain pan, and a hose. The heat-medium heat exchanger is provided in a housing to cause heat exchange to be performed between a heat medium and indoor air. The air vent valve allows air to escape from a heat medium passage that allows the heat medium to flow in the heat-medium heat exchanger. The drain pan is provided below the heat-medium heat exchanger to receive condensation water generated at a surface of the heat-medium heat exchanger. The hose has flexibility, and is attached to the air vent valve, and provided to let out the air along with the heat medium from the heat medium passage to the inner space in the drain pan. The hose has a double-wall structure and an upper end portion of the hose is fixed to the air vent valve.

Abstract: A temperature-detecting device includes a frame, a temperature-detecting unit, a driving unit, a rotation-controlling unit, and a controller. The temperature-detecting unit includes a sensor, a sensor cap, and a sensor case. The rotation-controlling unit is configured to stop rotation of the sensor cap when the temperature-detecting unit reaches a target angle that is over 360 degrees froma reference position, with the sensor case being kept rotated by the driving unit such that the sensor is displaced froman opening and is covered by the sensor case. The controller is configured to correct a temperature detected while the sensor is exposed at the opening, with reference to a temperature detected while the sensor is covered by the sensor case.

Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric ceramics having a gradual change in piezoelectric constant depending on an ambient temperature. Specifically, provided is a single-piece piezoelectric ceramics including as a main component a perovskite-type metal oxide represented by a compositional formula of ABO3, wherein an A site element in the compositional formula contains Ba and M1, the M1 being formed of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Ca and Bi, wherein a B site element in the compositional formula contains T1 and M2, the M2 being formed of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Zr, Sn, and Hf, wherein concentrations of the M1 and the M2 change in at least one direction of the piezoelectric ceramics, and wherein increase and decrease directions of concentration changes of the M1 and the M2 are directions opposite to each other.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a shell in which a light-receiving window is formed; a display unit attached to an inner surface of the shell; and a cover attached to the display unit, the cover covering the light-receiving window. The cover includes a first end portion, a second end portion located opposite to the first end portion, one of a first engagement portion and a first engagement-receiving portion provided at the first end portion, the first engagement-receiving portion being engaged with the first engagement portion, and one of a first lug portion and a first lug-receiving portion provided at the second end portion, the first lug-receiving portion being engaged with the first lug portion. The display unit includes the other of the first engagement portion and the first engagement-receiving portion, and the other of the first lug portion and the first lug-receiving portion.

Abstract: A vibration wave motor includes an annular oscillator, and an annular moving member provided so as to be in press contact with the oscillator. The oscillator includes an annular vibrating plate, and an annular piezoelectric element provided on a first surface of the vibrating plate. The vibrating plate is in contact with the moving member via a second surface of the vibrating plate, which is opposite the first surface. The piezoelectric element has a plurality of drive phase electrodes. When a driving region represents a region of the oscillator in which the drive phase electrodes are provided, and a non-driving region represents a remaining region of the oscillator, a contact area ratio S1 between the vibrating plate and the moving member in the non-driving region is less than a contact area ratio S2 between the vibrating plate and the moving member in the driving region.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element in which, at a time when the piezoelectric element is manufactured, a piezoelectric material is prevented from being exposed to a temperature higher than a Curie temperature thereof to be depolarized, to thereby significantly decrease piezoelectric properties. The method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element includes a first step of arranging a plurality of electrodes on a piezoelectric material, electrically short-circuiting two or more electrodes of the plurality of electrodes, and subjecting the piezoelectric material to heat treatment, and a second step of, after the first step, electrically opening the short circuit of the two or more electrodes at a time when a temperature of the piezoelectric material decreases to less than a temperature of the piezoelectric material at a time of the heat treatment.

Abstract: Provided is a piezoelectric material which is free of lead, has small temperature dependence of a piezoelectric constant and has a satisfactory piezoelectric constant. The piezoelectric material includes: an oxide having a perovskite-type structure containing Ba, Ca, Ti, and Zr; Mn; Bi; and W, wherein a ratio of the sum of the Ba and the Ca with respect to the sum of the Ti and the Zr is 0.986 or more and 1.02 or less, and wherein, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the oxide, a content of the Mn is 0.040 part by mass or more and 0.360 part by mass or less, a content of the Bi is 0.050 part by mass or more and 0.240 part by mass or less, and a content of the W is 0.100 part by mass or more and 0.380 part by mass or less.

Abstract: Provided is a packing material which packs at least a unit main body of an air conditioner to be installed in a ceiling, the packing material including: a cover part for covering an opening part through which components inside the unit main body are exposed; and a cut and bent up part which has a slit part for inserting a protruding portion of the unit main body and fixes the cover part on the unit main body. The packing material can eliminate the need for a curing sheet and a tape for fixing the curing sheet while keeping out dust etc.

Abstract: The indoor unit of an air-conditioning unit includes: an opening; a cover; a heat medium heat exchanger; and an air processing unit. The air purge valve is positioned on a rear side in a projection direction of the opening inside the casing. The cover includes, on its one side, a single hook protruding from its cover body. The cover includes, on its side opposite to the one side, a temporarily fixing tab configured to temporarily fix the cover to the casing with the cover body closing the opening.

Abstract: A fall prevention structure of an electric component cover in a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes an electric component box housing an electric component of a refrigeration cycle apparatus. The electric component box includes a casing, a side of which is open, and an electric component cover configured to cover, in an upright position, an opening of the casing and to be screwed to the casing. The electric component cover includes a catch including a backward-extending portion and an upward-extending portion. The backward-extending portion extends backward from an upper end portion of the electric component cover. The upward-extending portion extends upward from an end portion of the backward-extending portion. In a state in which the electric component cover is screwed to the casing, the catch is inserted into an insertion slot disposed in a portion extending in an up-down direction of the casing.

Abstract: An indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes a wind direction vane, a vane motor, an air passage wall, and a shaft joint member. Between a vane shaft and the air passage wall, an annular gap is provided. The shaft joint member includes a flange portion between the air passage wall and the vane motor. The flange portion radially extends outward from a center, thereby causing air that flows toward the vane motor through the annular gap to be diffused outward relative to a direction toward the vane motor.

Abstract: An indoor unit includes a housing that houses an electrical-component storage box that includes a body portion, a lid portion, and an engagement mechanism portion that engages the body portion and the lid portion with each other in a detachable manner. The lid portion covers an open region on a side of the body portion. The engagement mechanism portion includes an engagement claw portion provided at one of the body and lid portions and an engagement hole portion into which the claw portion is inserted, and which is formed at the other of the body and lid portions.

Abstract: A vibration wave motor includes a driven body, a vibrator including an annular vibration plate and an annular piezoelectric element, and a vibration damping member, which are arranged in sequence, wherein the vibration plate has, on a side facing the driven body, radially extending groove portions at X places, and, when center depths of the groove portions at X places are sequentially denoted by D1 to DX in a circumferential direction, D1 to DX vary along a curve obtained by superposing one or more sine waves, and wherein the vibration plate is locally supported by the vibration damping member in some or all antinode portions of a standing wave occurring when the vibration wave motor is driven.

Abstract: A decorative panel includes a decorative-panel body, a decorative-panel mounting component, and a decorative-panel mounting screw. The decorative-panel mounting screw is used to, when the decorative-panel mounting screw is inserted through a second screw-insertion hole in the decorative-panel mounting component and a first screw-insertion hole in the decorative-panel body and fastened into a screw-fastening hole, cause a first mounting plate part and a second mounting plate part included in the decorative-panel mounting component to deform such that a mounting surface part included in the decorative-panel mounting component is displaced toward an indoor-unit body, and cause a first protruding engagement part and a second protruding engagement part included in the decorative-panel mounting component to move to be closer toward each other than before the decorative-panel mounting screw is fastened into the screw-fastening hole.