Abstract: A machining assist system includes a knowledge database, a receiver, a control unit, and a display. The knowledge database stores various pieces of information indicative of know-how concerning a machining method and a machining facility. The receiver receives a question. The control unit executes a driving solver and a solution-providing solver so as to search the knowledge database using a search condition based on the question and derive a response. The display presents the response. The response includes a plurality of measures, priorities assigned to the measures, and progress information indicative of a search process and a search route. The search process includes a plurality of factors to be used to derive the measures. The search route is a link between the factors. The search process and the search route are visually presented on the display.

Abstract: A steering apparatus includes a steering wheel that rotates about a first rotation axis, a folding mechanism that folds the steering wheel along the first rotation axis, a moving mechanism that moves the steering wheel between a protruding position in which the steering wheel protrudes from a dashboard of the vehicle and a stored position closer to the dashboard than the protruding position, and an electronic control unit that drives the folding mechanism and the moving mechanism. When the folded steering wheel is moved from the protruding position to the stored position, the electronic control unit drives, in advance, a drive member mounted on the vehicle so that the steering wheel is retracted relative to a body of a driver.

Abstract: A method estimates a track rod force which is exerted, in a power steering system with which a vehicle is equipped, on a track rod belonging to a steering mechanism which connects an actuator to a steered wheel which is orientable in the yaw direction and which bears a tyre of which the tread is in contact with the ground, the value of the estimated track rod force being corrected as a function of the longitudinal speed of the vehicle by a force component that models the release of the elastic torsion of the tyre so as to reduce, the estimated track rod force according to the longitudinal speed of the vehicle, when the vehicle transitions from a park situation in which the longitudinal speed of the vehicle is zero to a drive situation in which the longitudinal speed of the vehicle is non-zero.

Abstract: A deterioration determining apparatus includes: an operating condition acquirer to acquire an operating condition of a processing device; a processing state data acquirer to acquire processing state data detected by a sensor attached to the processing device; a learning model generator to conduct machine learning using, as learning data, the operating condition and the processing state data so as to preliminarily generate a learning model concerning the operating condition and the processing state data; an actual data acquirer to acquire actual data that is the processing state data at a determining time; a predicted data acquirer to acquire, using the learning model, predicted data that is the processing state data for the operating condition at the determining time; and a determiner to determine the degree of deterioration in the processing device in accordance with the degree of divergence between the actual data and the predicted data.

Abstract: A rotation detection device includes a rotation detection circuit, a step-up power supply circuit, a step-down power supply circuit, a first power supply path, and a second power supply path. The rotation detection circuit is configured to detect a rotation number of a motor that generates a torque applied to a steering mechanism of a vehicle, based on an electric signal. The electric signal is generated according to a rotation angle of the motor that is acquired through an in-vehicle sensor.

Abstract: A device for assisting molding condition determination is used with a molding method that molds an article by feeding molten material into a mold. The device includes a learning model generating unit, an input unit, and an output unit. The learning model generating unit creates a learning model through machine learning in which a plurality of molding condition element items used to mold the article and a plurality of quality element items of the molded article are used as learning data. The learning model relates to a degree of influence of each molding condition element item on each quality element item. The input unit receives input of a subject quality element item to be checked, selected from the quality element items. The output unit outputs, using the learning model, the multiple molding condition element item that has the degree of influence on the subject quality element item.

Abstract: A cam follower device includes: a bearing holding member that has a pair of opposing side walls disposed with a space therebetween and that is arranged with respect to a cam provided on a camshaft; a support shaft inserted into insertion holes provided coaxially in each of the pair of opposing side walls; an outer ring that has the support shaft inserted therethrough, is disposed between the pair of opposing side walls, and faces the cam; an inner ring formed by an outer peripheral surface of the support shaft; and a plurality of rollers disposed in an annular gap between the outer ring and the inner ring.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a control device for a first suction portion, a second suction portion, and a folding portion so that each time a separator is folded, a positive electrode and a negative electrode are alternately sandwiched between folded surfaces of the separator. The control device controls the at least one of the first suction portion and the second suction portion so that doping foil is bonded to one of a current collector, the positive electrode, and the negative electrode sucked and held by the at least one of the first suction portion and the second suction portion. The control device controls the at least one of the first suction portion and the second suction portion so that the one of the current collector, the positive electrode, and the negative electrode having the lithium metal foil bonded thereto is transported and sandwiched between a predetermined pair of the folded surfaces of the separator.

Abstract: An analysis system includes detectors provided in an apparatus, first analysis devices each configured to generate processed data by performing predetermined processing on detection information from each of the detectors, and to evaluate an object to be evaluated based on the detection information from each of the detectors and on an evaluation pattern, and a second analysis device configured to update the evaluation pattern based on the processed data generated by each of the first analysis devices.

Abstract: A motor control device for controlling drive of an electric motor that controls a steering angle of a steering device, the motor device includes: a torque sensor and an electronic control unit. The torque sensor is configured to detect steering torque acting on a steering member. The electronic control unit is configured to: generate a steering angle command value based on the steering torque by using an equation of motion that is a reference model of the steering device; control driving of the electric motor so that an actual steering angle follows the steering angle command value; and limit a virtual reaction force that is a reaction force component of the equation of motion.

Abstract: In a steered shaft in a steering system, when a section of a first end portion having a prescribed length shorter than a length from an end face to an outer peripheral rolling groove is defined as a first section, a section of the first end portion other than the first section and adjacent to the outer peripheral rolling groove is defined as a second section, a section, in the outer peripheral rolling groove, starting from a boundary between the second section and the outer peripheral rolling groove and having a prescribed length shorter than an axial length of a section along which the outer peripheral rolling groove extends is defined as a third section, a maximum value of a hardening depth in the second section is larger than a hardening depth in the first section.

Abstract: A device for assisting molding condition determination includes a molding state data adjustment amount obtaining unit and a molding condition element adjustment amount obtaining unit. The molding state data adjustment amount obtaining unit obtains, using a first learning model, a molding state data adjustment amount having a value equivalent to a difference between molding state data detected by a sensor and a molding state data target value. The molding condition element adjustment amount obtaining unit obtains, using a second learning model, an adjustment amount for a molding condition element corresponding to the molding state data adjustment amount.

Abstract: A grease property measurement device includes a flow pipe having a first end that communicates with an inside of a rolling bearing such that grease discharged from the rolling bearing flows through the flow pipe; a reservoir unit including an inlet port to which a second end of the flow pipe is connected such that the grease is introduced from the flow pipe through the inlet port, a reservoir chamber which stores the grease introduced through the inlet port, and a discharge port through which the grease is discharged from the reservoir chamber; an extrusion mechanism configured to push the grease in the reservoir chamber so as to discharge the grease through the discharge port; and a measuring unit configured to measure flow resistance at a time when the extrusion mechanism pushes the grease in the reservoir chamber.

Abstract: A screen information generation device generates screen information indicating display content of a display device connected to a programmable controller that controls a control object device according to a chart program indicating execution order of a plurality of steps each provided per operation unit. When generating the screen information of an individual-manipulation screen for use in individually operating the control object device per operation unit, the screen information generation device is configured to generate the screen information based on the chart program such that a plurality of operation buttons that respectively correspond to the plurality of steps is displayed on the display device.

Abstract: A differential device includes: a differential case on which a meshed portion is formed; a tubular slide member that has a meshing portion; a differential gear mechanism disposed inside the slide member; a pinion gear shaft that supports pinion gears of the differential gear mechanism; and an actuator that moves the slide member in the axial direction. The slide member has a cylindrical portion, on one side of which in the axial direction the meshing portion is formed, and a long hole that extends in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion and that opens toward the other side in the axial direction, which is the opposite side from the meshing portion. The pinion gear shaft is fitted with the long hole, and supported by the slide member. A reinforcing ring that suppresses deformation of the slide member is attached to an end portion of the cylindrical portion in which the long hole opens.

Abstract: A gear machining apparatus and a gear machining method are provided. The gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus sets a correction angle to a first angle when cutting work for a second tooth flank is started after cutting work for a first tooth flank is finished, and moves the gear cutter from a first finish position to a second start position while rotating the workpiece and the gear cutter.

Abstract: A gear machining apparatus performs cutting work for a workpiece and generates a gear by performing a feed operation of a gear cutter relative to the workpiece along a direction of an axis of the workpiece while synchronously rotating the gear cutter and the workpiece in a state in which an axis of the gear cutter is inclined with respect to a line parallel to the axis of the workpiece. The gear machining apparatus continuously performs cutting work for a first tooth flank and cutting work for a second tooth flank during a single feed operation, and changes a correction angle between the cutting work for the first tooth flank and the cutting work for the second tooth flank.

Abstract: A vehicle fitted with a steering device including a steering mechanism protected by a steering casing, the steering casing itself being housed in an engine compartment that is separated from the interior of the vehicle by a dashboard, the steering device also including a steering wheel, located in the interior, and to which the steering mechanism is connected by a steering column that extends out of the steering casing and passes through the dashboard, the vehicle including, in order to provide a seal around the steering column, between the steering casing and the dashboard, an elastomeric coupling gasket including, in a single piece, a central first sealing ring that surrounds and clamps around the steering column and a peripheral second sealing ring that is inserted between the steering casing and the dashboard, at a distance from and around the first sealing ring.

Abstract: An assembly method in which an assembly ring is force-fitted between a first part and a second part such as to create: a tightening contact between the first part and the inner face of the ring, by means of plastic deformation of the ring, said tightening contact occupying a first interference zone; and a tightening contact between the second part and the outer face of the ring, said tightening contact occupying a second interference zone. The assembly ring comprises a first ring segment (T1) and a second ring segment (T2) which are stepped axially in relation to one another and which have different radial dimensions from one another, such as to confine the first interference zone to the first ring segment (T1) and the second interference zone to the second ring segment (T2), in order to prevent the first interference zone and the second interference zone from overlapping axially.

Abstract: A walking assist device includes: a frame; a pair of right and left arm portions; a pair of right and left grasp portions provided on the pair of right and left arm portions; a plurality of wheels including a drive wheel; a drive unit driving the drive wheel; a grasp portion drive unit configured to move the grasp portions; a battery; a control unit controlling the drive unit; and a grasp portion state detection unit detecting a state of each of the grasp portions. The control unit includes: a grasp portion state observation unit observing a grasp portion state that is a state of the grasp portions; a walking state evaluation unit evaluating a walking state of the user based on the grasp portion state observed using the grasp portion state observation unit; and a correction adjustment unit adjusting a control command for at least one of the drive unit and the grasp portion drive unit based on the walking state evaluated using the walking state evaluation unit.