Abstract: A plunger rod for an injection device including a cylindrical sleeve has a distal end provided with a plunger chip configured to slide in the cylindrical sleeve. The plunger rod is configured to move forward and backward in the cylindrical sleeve. The plunger rod includes a support member. The support member is provided on an outer circumference of the plunger rod while being separated from the plunger chip, the support member being slidable with respect to the cylindrical sleeve in response to forward movement of the plunger rod. The support member has a semicircular ring shape, a C shape, or an annular shape. The support member supporting the plunger rod in the cylindrical sleeve.

Abstract: To provide a steel sheet for hot stamping that further improves productivity of a hot-stamped member, has excellent appearance, and has excellent spot weldability, and a hot-stamped member. A steel sheet for hot stamping according to the present invention includes, on the whole of at least one surface of the steel sheet, a surface-treated film whose emissivity at a wavelength of 8.0 ?m at 25° C. is 60% or more, in which the surface-treated film contains carbon black, and one or more of oxides selected from a group consisting of a Zr oxide, a Zn oxide, and a Ti oxide, in which the carbon black and the oxides exist while being dispersed over the entire surface-treated film, the surface-treated film has a silica content of 0 to 0.3 g/m2, and when an adhesion amount of the carbon black and an adhesion amount of the oxides are set to XCB (g/m2) and XOxide (g/m2), respectively, an equation (1) is satisfied.

Abstract: A fuel supplying device for an internal combustion engine includes a tank configured to store a gaseous fuel, a fuel injection valve configured to supply the gaseous fuel to a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, a fuel passage configured to supply the gaseous fuel in the tank to the fuel injection valve, and a pressure reduction valve provided in the fuel passage. The fuel passage has a double-walled pipe structure including an inner pipe through which the gaseous fuel flows and an outer pipe that has an inner diameter larger than the inner pipe and covers the inner pipe. The fuel passage is configured such that a coolant is supplied to a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe.

Abstract: A motor housing may include a cast body. The cast body may include a cylindrical portion. At least one machined surface may be disposed on at least one of (i) an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion and (ii) an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. A back side of the at least one machined surface may be an exposed non-machined surface.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] High positional accuracy of connection terminals should be achieved in a bus bar unit for a motor. [Solution] A method for manufacturing a busbar unit (10) according to the present invention includes a step of molding a power connection terminal member (14) integrally with a resin plate (12) by insert molding, and a step of attaching the busbar to the power connection terminal member (14) so as to connect electrically each other. The power connection terminal member (14) has a power connection terminal (14a) for connecting to the motor control board, and an attachment portion (14b) for attaching to a bus bar electrically connected to the coils of the stator. The power connection terminal (14a) and the attachment portion (14b) protrude from the resin plate (12) individually. The attachment portion (14b) of the power connection terminal member (14) is welded to the attachment portion of the busbar.

Abstract: A load port includes: a plate-shaped base member having an opening via which a transfer target object is loaded and unloaded; a door member capable of opening and closing the opening; a link mechanism including a link member having one end rotatably connected to the door member; a guide roller configured to move together with the door member; a guide surface bent to extend from a first direction to a second direction and configured to guide the guide roller; a drive member to which the other end of the link member is rotatably connected; and a driver configured to move the drive member in the second direction.

Abstract: An optical fiber according to an embodiment has a structure capable of reducing an increase in transmission loss. The optical fiber includes a glass part extending in a direction of a central axis, and the glass part is comprised of silica-based glass, includes a core and a cladding, and has residual stress approximately uniform throughout a cross section of the glass part orthogonal to the central axis, the core having the central axis and being doped with chlorine with a mass fraction of 1% or more, the cladding surrounding the core and having a refractive index lower than a maximum refractive index of the core.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a monitoring device for a terminal including a connection unit to which at least one device is able to be connected and mounted with a container file storing application software for controlling a business to be performed by using the device connected to the connection unit. The monitoring device includes a detection unit, an acquisition unit, and a processing unit. The detection unit detects an abnormality in the terminal. The acquisition unit acquires the container file mounted on the terminal in which the abnormality is detected. The processing unit installs the acquired container file on an alternative terminal.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a methyl methacrylate-containing composition with high quality stability during storage. This can be solved with a methyl methacrylate-containing composition, a pyrazine compound represented by Formula (1) (component A1), and a polymerization inhibitor (Component B1), in which the concentration of methyl methacrylate is from 99 to 99.99% by mass.

Abstract: A film forming method includes preparing a substrate having an amorphous silicon film on a surface thereof, diffusing nickel into the amorphous silicon film by supplying a nickel source gas to the amorphous silicon film, and forming a polycrystalline silicon film by heating the amorphous silicon film, and crystallizing the amorphous silicon film by metal-induced lateral crystallization using the nickel diffused in the amorphous silicon film as a nucleus.

Abstract: To display information appropriately without making an occupant feel annoyed, a steering operation element 10 of a vehicle 2 includes a hub part 31 provided rotatably with respect to a vehicle body 15; an extending part 32 extending radially outward from an outer circumference of the hub part; an outer edge part 33 provided on an outer edge of the extending part; a display 40 provided on the hub part; at least one first light source 27A provided on the extending part; and an interface control device 41 configured to control the display and the first light source, wherein the interface control device is configured to cause the display to display an image corresponding to at least one of vehicle state information indicating a state of the vehicle and environment information indicating a surrounding environment of the vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine a sprinkling mode based on information indicating the environment of a sprinkling place. The control unit is configured to send, through the communication unit, a notification indicating the sprinkling mode to at least one vehicle scheduled to travel in the sprinkling place.

Abstract: An actuator device includes a support portion, a movable portion, a connection portion which connects the movable portion to the support portion on a second axis, a first wiring which is provided on the connection portion, a second wiring which is provided on the support portion, and an insulation layer which includes a first opening exposing a surface opposite to the support portion in a first connection part located on the support portion in one of the first wiring and the second wiring and covers a corner of the first connection part. The rigidity of a first metal material forming the first wiring is higher than the rigidity of a second metal material forming the second wiring. The other wiring of the first wiring and the second wiring is connected to the surface of the first connection part in the first opening.

Abstract: A controller is used for an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and a direct injection valve that injects gaseous fuel into the cylinder. A CPU of the controller executes acquisition of an in-cylinder pressure that is a pressure in the cylinder during one combustion cycle and a supply fuel pressure that is a pressure of the gaseous fuel supplied to the direct injection valve, and calculation of a backflow rate that is an amount of combustion gas flowing into the direct injection valve from the cylinder during one combustion cycle of the cylinder. In the calculation of the backflow rate, the CPU calculates the backflow rate such that the backflow rate becomes larger as the in-cylinder pressure increases and the backflow rate becomes larger as the supply fuel pressure decreases.

Abstract: A seat cushion is formed integrally by a body pad portion, an outer peripheral edge portion, and a connection portion. The outer peripheral edge portion protrudes toward a floor panel from the outer peripheral edge portion in a plan view and contacts a floor panel at its lower face. The connection portion is provided to protrude toward the floor panel at a portion which is separated from a front-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion and a rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion, respectively. The connection portion connects the floor panel and the body pad portion. A portion between the front-side part and the rear-side part of the outer peripheral edge portion in a vehicle longitudinal direction is a separation portion where a lower face of the seat cushion faces an upper face of the floor panel with a gap.

Abstract: An image capturing unit captures an image including an embedded image that is printed on the basis of image data in which at least a color component has been modulated according to additional information. An adjustment unit adjusts a white balance of the image captured by the image capturing unit on the basis of an adjustment value associated with the embedded image. A processing unit processes image data of the image captured by the image capturing unit whose white balance has been adjusted by the adjustment unit to read the additional information in the image captured by the image capturing unit.

Abstract: In a mirror unit, a first wall portion is higher than a second wall portion. A window member is disposed on a top surface of the first wall portion and a top surface of the second wall portion and is inclined with respect to a mirror surface. When any one of first to fourth wall portions is set as a first reference wall portion, in a cross-section perpendicular to the first reference wall portion, a first line passing through a first end at a side of the first reference wall portion in the mirror surface and a first corner portion formed at the side of the first reference wall portion by an outer surface and a first side surface in the window member intersects the first wall portion. A wiring portion includes a portion extending inside a base and leads outside a frame member.

Abstract: A plated steel sheet for hot stamping according to one aspect of the present invention includes a steel sheet, a plating layer formed on either surface or both surfaces of the steel sheet and having an Al content of 60 mass % or more, and a surface film layer formed on the plating layer. A thickness t of the plating layer is 10 to 60 ?m. An average crystal grain diameter of the plating layer in a thickness range from an interface between the plating layer and the surface film layer to a position at ? of the thickness t is 2t/3 or less and 15.0 ?m or less. A surface film layer contains particles containing one or more elements selected from A group elements consisting of Sc, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ce, Nb, Mo, and W. A total content of the A group elements is 0.01 to 10.0 g/m2. An average grain diameter of the particles containing the A group elements is 0.05 to 3.0 ?m.

Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a mechanism to move an antenna between first and second positions, and a controller configured to: (a) control the antenna to transmit radio waves to wireless tags each attached to an object when the antenna is between the first and second positions; acquire, from response waves, information registered in each tag and indicating attributes of the object and the tag, and signal values of the response waves; and calculate an estimated position of each tag and a reliability level thereof based on the values. When the level of the position of a tag is less than a threshold or when the information of a tag indicates an attribute that can affect radio communications, the controller performs step (a) again, acquires signal values of response waves received from the tag, and calculates an estimated position of the tag and a reliability level thereof based on the values.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires transaction information in which consumer identification information for identifying a consumer is associated with individual item identification information indicating an individual item of a commodity purchased by the consumer in a transaction; a management unit that manages, for an individual consumer, the transaction information acquired by the acquisition unit; a receipt information output unit that outputs, based on the transaction information managed by the management unit, receipt information presented as a receipt to the consumer; a reception unit that receives event information indicating contents of an event targeting a commodity; and a specifying unit that specifies the consumer identification information, corresponding to the individual item identification information of an individual item which is a target of the event information received by the reception unit, with reference to the transaction information managed by