Abstract: Disclosed is a gearing device for a seat including a first internally toothed gear, a second internally toothed gear, an externally toothed gear, and an eccentric member. The first internally toothed gear includes a rotation center axis. The second internally toothed gear has the rotation center axis in common with the first internally toothed gear and is rotatably supported by the first internally toothed gear. The externally toothed gear is arranged to an inner side of the first and the second internally toothed gear, to thereby mesh with the first and the second internally toothed gears. The eccentric member rotates the externally toothed gear such that a rotation center thereof follows a path around the rotation center axis, rotatably supports the externally toothed gear about the rotation center, and rotates about the rotation center axis in response to a rotational force being externally input thereto.

Abstract: A seat lifter device includes: an output shaft; a support unit that supports the output shaft; an input unit; a ratchet-type feed unit configured to transmit rotation of the input unit to the output shaft; a lock unit configured to lock rotation of the output shaft relative to the support unit; a friction generation unit configured to apply a friction force between a rotation member and the support unit in response to an operation of the input unit rotating in a direction in which the seat is lowered; and a slippage preventing unit. When the input unit rotates in the direction in which the seat is lowered and the output shaft rotates preceding to the feed unit against the friction force to slip, the slippage preventing unit is fitted to the support unit by an elastic force in response to slippage of the output shaft to stop the slippage.

Abstract: In one example, a vehicle seat includes a non-woven and a J-clip, wherein the non-woven is secured to the J-clip to define a single component. The vehicle seat includes a trim cover attached to the non-woven, and the J-clip is attached to a cushion frame to attach the trim cover to the cushion frame.

Abstract: A cyanobacterium transformed using a gene transfer vector. The gene transfer vector includes: a first homologous recombination region homologous to a 5? side of a target DNA of the cyanobacterium; a second homologous recombination region homologous to a 3? side of the target DNA; and a DNA fragment introduced into a portion sandwiched between the first homologous recombination region and the second homologous recombination region. A total length of the first homologous recombination region and the second homologous recombination region is 5 kbp or more. The cyanobacterium has a DNA fragment transferred between the 5? side of the target DNA and the 3? side of the target DNA.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes power generation cells, which are stacked in a vertical direction. Each power generation cell is configured to generated power by using gas. Each power generation cell includes a first hole and a second hole. The first holes of the power generation cells form a gas manifold. The gas manifold extends in the vertical direction, and the gas flows through the gas manifold. The second holes of the power generation cells form a passage. The passage is adjacent to the gas manifold and extends in the vertical direction. The gas manifold and the passage are connected to each other at upper ends of the gas manifold and the passage.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes a cell stack body, a terminal plate, an end plate, and an insulating plate. The terminal plate is disposed adjacent to the cell stack body in a stacking direction. The terminal plate is configured to collect current. The end plate is disposed on a side of the terminal plate opposite from the cell stack body. The insulating plate is disposed between the terminal plate and the end plate. The insulating plate is made of an electrically insulating resin material. The insulating plate integrally holds the terminal plate and the end plate.

Abstract: The control device includes: a detection unit that detects a predetermined speech/motion of a user who is present in an output destination space of a directional speaker; an identification unit that identifies, in accordance with the predetermined speech/motion, an audio source of interest among audio sources and a directional speaker as an object to be controlled; and an output control unit that causes the identified directional speakers to output audio supplied from the identified audio source.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat cushion in which a front panel extends between front parts of right and left side frames and a front rod extends between the front parts of the right and left side frames at a position rearward of the front panel in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; a cushion airbag device mounted in a front part of the seat cushion and configured to inflate and deploy a cushion airbag when a frontal collision of the vehicle occurs; and a bag support fixed to the front rod, the cushion airbag being fixed to the bag support at a position rearward of the front rod in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicular interior component to be mounted on a vehicular metal member includes a wall member and a skin disposed on a portion of the wall member. The wall member includes a wall body portion having a plate shape and a mounting portion that extends from the wall body portion and along the vehicular metal member and is to be fixed to the vehicular metal member. The skin includes an electricity removal surface layer having static dissipative properties on a surface of the skin facing a vehicular exterior side. The skin includes a skin body portion that covers the wall body portion and a skin extended portion that extends from the skin body portion and covers a portion of the mounting portion. The electricity removal surface layer of the skin extended portion is to be directly contacted with the vehicular metal member.

Abstract: A vehicle dispatch device includes: a demand information obtaining section configured to obtain a demand spot at which demand for vehicle dispatch is expected and demand time at which the demand is expected; a biological condition obtaining section configured to obtain, for each of drivers, a change over time of a biological condition from the present to the demand time; and a vehicle dispatch supporting section configured to determine, for each of the drivers, a required rest time necessary for taking a rest in order to make a level of the biological condition less than a predetermined threshold value at the demand time in the change over time, and to identify, from among the drivers, one or more drivers who are capable of finishing both of traveling to the demand spot and taking the rest by the demand time.

Abstract: A separator for a fuel cell includes a contact surface configured to contact a power generating unit of the fuel cell. Groove passages are arranged side by side in the contact surface. Reactant gas flows through the groove passages. At least one of the groove passages includes a wavy section that extends in a wavy shape in planar directions of the contact surface. An upstream portion and a downstream portion in a flow direction of the reactant gas in each groove passage are defined as an upstream portion and a downstream portion, respectively. A wavelength of the wavy section is smaller in the downstream portion than in the upstream portion.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fuel cell separator includes heating a sheet, pressing the sheet using a first die, thereby forming the sheet so as to have a predetermined thickness, cooling, together with the first die, the sheet that has been formed so as to have the predetermined thickness, and pressing the sheet that has undergone the cooling using a second die, thereby forming a gas passage in the sheet. In the sheet, a content of a thermoplastic resin is greater than or equal to 20 weight percent and less than or equal to 30 weight percent and a content of the carbon material particles is greater than or equal to 70 weight percent and less than or equal to 80 weight percent. The heating the sheet includes heating the sheet to a temperature that is higher than a melting point of the thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a fiber-reinforced material and an article made of the same. The fiber-reinforced material includes a fiber assembly and a matrix material coating the fiber assembly, the matrix material is a thermoplastic resin composition obtained by blending a polyolefin resin, a polyamide resin, and a modified elastomer that reacts with the polyamide resin. When a puncture test is performed at a striker speed of 1-4 msec and when a maximum impact force is applied is defined as PM and a deflection at break is defined as PB, PB/PM?4. When the amount of energy absorbed before a maximum impact force is applied is E1, the amount of energy absorbed after a maximum impact force is applied and before break is E2, and a total amount of absorbed energy of E1 and E2 is ET, the ratio of E2:ET is 70% or more.

Abstract: The vehicle headliner includes a base layer, a skin layer disposed on one side of the base layer, and an infrared reflecting layer and a protection layer, in this order, disposed on the other side of the base layer. The base layer contains thermoplastic resin and fiber. The protection layer is a non-stretched resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 200° C. or more.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat ordering system that allows to design a custom-made seat suitable for a driving environment of a vehicle. One aspect of the present disclosure is a vehicle seat ordering system including: a seat for measurement, the seat including a seat body configured to be installed in a vehicle, and a sensor configured to detect a posture of an occupant of the seat body while the vehicle is running; and a seat design device configured to design a custom-made seat to be installed in the vehicle based on chronological data of the posture of the occupant obtained from the sensor.

Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting window and a vehicle light-adjusting window system capable of clearly projecting a video are provided. A vehicle light-adjusting window includes a transparent plate, a first conductive film, a light-adjusting layer, a second conductive film, and a projection film, which are arranged in this order.

Abstract: A mounting assembly includes a lighting device, a vehicular interior component, and a light guide member mounting member with which the light guide member is mounted on the vehicular interior component. The lighting device includes a light source and a long light guide member. The vehicular interior component includes a through hole and a receiving member that includes a stopper hole near the through hole. The light guide member mounting member includes a support portion and a fitting portion that extends from the support portion and is fitted to the stopper hole. The support portion includes a curved wall that has a space defined by the curved wall and receives and supports a portion of the light guide member in the space to be opposite the through hole such that the light exits the light guide member is supplied to a vehicular interior surface side of the vehicular interior component.

Abstract: Stability of shock absorbing property of a shock absorber provided on a back surface of a door trim is improved. A shock absorber is attached on the back surface of the door trim, and absorbs impact applied to the door. A quadrangular tube element of the shock absorber has an end plate on a tube tip surface, and faces the back surface of the door trim. The quadrangular tube element has an approximate U shape in which three side surfaces are closed by an upper plate, a lower plate, and a front plate, and the remaining one side surface is opened.

Abstract: A vehicle seat capable of exhibiting both performances of regulating an input of a load and reducing vibration is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure is a vehicle seat including a coupling structure coupling a first member and a second member. The coupling structure includes a bolt inserted through the first member and the second member, an auxiliary member arranged so as to hold the first member between the auxiliary member and the second member in an axial direction of the bolt, a first elastic element arranged between the first member and the second member in the axial direction, the first elastic element being in contact with the first member and the second member, and a second elastic element arranged between the first member and the auxiliary member in the axial direction, the second elastic element being in contact with the first member and the auxiliary member.

Abstract: The fiber-reinforced resin material of the present invention is a fiber-reinforced resin material having a laminated structure in which fiber assembly layers and thermoplastic resin layers are alternately located, wherein the fiber assembly layers are each an assembly of continuous fibers having thermoplastic resin particles attached to surfaces thereof, and the fiber-reinforced resin material has a higher elongation on one surface side than that on the other surface side. The fiber-reinforced resin structure is made of the present fiber-reinforced resin material. A method for manufacturing the present fiber-reinforced resin material includes: a stacking step of stacking a sheet-shaped product of the continuous fibers that serves as the fiber assembly layer and a resin sheet that serves as the thermoplastic resin layer so as to obtain the laminated structure; and a hot-pressing step of heating and compressing a stacked product obtained through the stacking step in a stacking direction.