Abstract: A crimping device for a motor core is configured to crimp dowels of adjacent ones of iron core pieces by applying a load to a laminate in a thickness direction. The crimping device for the motor core includes a fixed die configured to come into contact with a first end face of the laminate and a movable die that is movable toward and away from the fixed die. The movable die is configured to apply a load to the laminate by coming into contact with a second end face of the laminate. Protrusions are provided on a surface of the movable die facing the second end face in the thickness direction. The protrusions respectively protrude toward crimp portions of the laminate.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for an armature includes a fixed die, a movable die that includes a sprue, and a stripper plate located between the movable die and the fixed die. The stripper plate defines a runner and a gate. The runner extends in a movement direction of the movable die and extends in a direction that is orthogonal to the movement direction. The stripper plate includes a first segment and a second segment that are divided in the movement direction. The stripper plate further includes a first biasing portion that biases the first segment and the second segment to move away from each other in the movement direction. The first segment defines the runner together with the movable die. The second segment defines the runner and the gate.

Abstract: A cushion body for vehicle seat which is placed on variety of battery cases attached on a floor, wherein the cushion body has an upper surface and a lower surface and when a shape of an upper surface of the battery cases attached on the floor are superimposed on each other, the lower surface of the cushion body has a shape that does not interfere with the upper surface of any of the battery cases and contacts with a part of the upper surface of any of the battery cases.

Abstract: A seat cushion includes a seat pad and a panel frame having a planar shape and configured to support the seat pad from a pad back side. The seat pad includes a pair of ischium supporting portions configured to support right and left ischia of a seated occupant, and a pair of recessed pad back recesses formed on pad back surfaces of the pair of ischium supporting portions. The panel frame includes a pair of release portions that are recessed toward a frame back side or form through holes directly below the pair of ischium supporting portions, and a first pad supporting portion configured to support the seat pad from the pad back side and disposed between the pair of release portions.

Abstract: There is provided a seat cover fixing structure for fixing a cover end of a seat cover to a pad back surface of a seat pad. The seat cover fixing structure includes: a planar cover side surface member that forms a retracting portion to be retracted along the pad back surface of the cover end; and a planar pad side surface member including a sewn portion that is to be sewn to a back surface member integrally molded along the pad back surface of the seat pad to form a free end portion that allows to be partially rolled up, and a fixing portion that is provided at the free end portion and is configured to fix the cover side surface member against tension caused by retracting the cover side surface member.

Abstract: A cable adjuster has a main case, an outer casing fixing member, a number of sliders, and a locking member. The main case is configured to insert the inner cable in the cable axial direction. The outer casing fixing member affixes to an end of a pre-branch outer casing, which is the tube section of the outer casing before branching, to the main case. The sliders are arranged in parallel in the slots formed in the main case so as to slide in the cable axial direction. The sliders affixes to the ends of a plurality of post-branch outer casings, which are the post-branch tube sections of the outer casing. The locking member locks the sliding movement of the sliders with respect to the main case in the cable axial direction.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a cell stack body, a terminal plate, an end plate, and a passage portion. The terminal plate is disposed to be adjacent to the cell stack body in a stacking direction and is configured to collect power. The end plate is disposed on a side of the terminal plate that is opposite to the cell stack body. The terminal plate and the end plate have a through-hole that discharges reactant gas from the cell stack body. The passage portion covers an inner peripheral surface of the through-hole. The passage portion includes a peripheral wall that is formed of a plastic having an electrical insulation property and a hydrophilic portion disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the peripheral wall and is made of a plastic having a hydrophilicity higher than that of the plastic forming the peripheral wall.

Abstract: A magnet insertion device includes a magazine, a pusher, an aligning member, and an insertion mechanism. The magazine includes a housing body and an extruding portion configured to move magnets in the housing body in a stacking direction to sequentially extrude the sets of the magnets from the housing body. The pusher is configured to move each set of the magnets by collectively pushing the set of the magnets. The aligning member is configured to align the magnets in each set by coming into contact with opposite sides in the arrangement direction of the set of the magnets when the magnets are pushed and moved by the pusher. The insertion mechanism is configured to collectively grip each set of aligned magnets and insert the magnets into a magnet housing hole.

Abstract: A light emitting device to be mounted on a mount surface of a vehicular compartment includes a housing including a first section having an air intake hole and a cooling fan and a second section having an air discharge hole and a light emitter. The light emitter includes a board member having a first surface that is opposite the mount surface and a second surface that is an opposite surface of the first surface and on which a light emitting element is mounted. The housing further includes a discharge cavity having the discharge hole, and a top wall and a bottom wall that are opposite each other. The top wall includes a cavity upper wall section near the discharge hole. The cavity upper wall section has an opposite surface facing the first surface of the board member and extending parallel to the first surface.

Abstract: A press die apparatus includes a die and a backing plate. The die includes die holes into which punches are respectively inserted and withdrawn and first partition walls, each separating adjacent ones of the die holes from each other. The backing plate is adjacent to the die to support the die. The die includes die hole groups. The backing plate includes backing holes respectively connected to the die hole groups and a second partition wall, separating adjacent ones of the backing holes from each other. The second partition wall has a widened section that increases in width, continuously or in a stepwise manner, as the widened section extends away from the die. A maximum width of the widened section is greater than a width of the first partition wall.

Abstract: A position controlling device controls the position of a loading platform. The loading platform includes a loading portion, a base portion, and a coupling portion. The base portion is provided below the loading portion in a manner of supporting the loading portion. The coupling portion couples the base portion and the loading portion with a restoring member between them. One of the upper part of the base portion and the lower part of the loading portion includes a spherical surface that is convex downward. The other one of the upper part of the base portion and the lower part of the loading portion includes a guide portion. The guide portion guides the base portion and the loading portion such that the base portion and the loading portion are movable relative to each other in a direction along the spherical surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint mechanism that renders easy alignment between a striker and a latch. One mode of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint mechanism for restraining a wheelchair to a restraining member installed on a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint mechanism includes an engagement target portion and an engagement portion. The engagement target portion includes a striker having a rod shape extending in up-down directions. The engagement portion includes: a housing member to house the striker; a latch to limit separation of the striker from the housing member; and a guide member to guide the striker towards the housing member. The guide member includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface, which face each other in width directions of the wheelchair and have a distance therebetween decreasing towards the housing member.

Abstract: A plate-shaped plate member capable of showing an image projected thereon is disposed along a ceiling of a vehicle, and a plurality of seats are disposed in the vehicle such that the height with respect to a horizontal plane gradually increases in a first direction. At least a part of the plate member slopes downward with respect to the horizontal plane in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: A display device includes a first plate material on which a movie is to be projected onto a projection surface thereof, a vibrator fixed to a reverse surface of the first plate material and configured to vibrate the first plate material to generate a sound, and a second plate material fixed to the first plate material so that an obverse surface of the second plate material faces the reverse surface of the first plate material, and the vibrator is disposed in a hole provided on the obverse surface of the second plate material.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint apparatus that renders easy adjustment of a restraining position of a wheelchair inside a vehicle. One aspect of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint apparatus configured to restrain a wheelchair inside a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint apparatus includes a main body having a seat belt, and a restrained mechanism to and from which the wheelchair is attachable and detachable; and a slide mechanism configured to cause the main body to slide with respect to the vehicle. The restraint mechanism is configured to restrain the wheelchair in a state where a part of the wheelchair is inserted to the restraint mechanism in a traveling direction of the wheelchair.

Abstract: A method for producing a noble metal fine particle-supported catalyst includes: a step of mixing a noble metal salt, an alcohol having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and a support to form a mixture; and a heating step of the mixture at a temperature of 150° C. or higher and 800° C. or lower to produce a noble metal fine particle-supported catalyst.

Abstract: An object is to provide a material in which properties of a conventional biopolymer are significantly improved.

Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core that includes a magnet housing hole, multiple magnet members that are accommodated in the magnet housing hole in a state of being separated from each other in a planar direction orthogonal to the stacking direction, and multiple fixing members that respectively fill spaces between an inner surface of the magnet housing hole and outer surfaces of the multiple magnet members. The fixing members press the magnet members against the inner surface of the magnet housing hole by foaming of a foaming agent, thereby fixing the magnet members. The magnet housing hole includes multiple recesses that are respectively filled with the fixing members.

Abstract: A rotor manufacturing apparatus includes a first welding device configured to weld a first end plate to a first end of a rotor core, a first detection unit configured to detect whether an end plate to be supplied to the first welding device is the first end plate, a second welding device configured to weld a second end plate to a second end of the rotor core having the first end plate welded to the first end, and a second detection unit configured to detect whether an end plate to be supplied to the second welding device is the second end plate.

Abstract: A content generating device generates, on the basis of information relating to an internal space of a vehicle and information relating to traveling of the vehicle, content corresponding to a scene which changes as the vehicle travels.