Abstract: A compressor module includes: an evaporator configured to evaporate a refrigerant of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle; a liquid storage configured to store the refrigerant in a liquid phase; a compressor configured to suction and compress the refrigerant; and a flow passage forming member to which the evaporator, the liquid storage and the compressor are installed. The flow passage forming member forms at least a portion of a flow passage of the refrigerant. The compressor is positioned on a lower side of the flow passage forming member, and the flow passage of the refrigerant includes a suction-side refrigerant flow passage, through which the refrigerant in a gas-phase to be suctioned into the compressor flows. The suction-side refrigerant flow passage has a rising portion that rises upward as the rising portion approaches the compressor.

Abstract: A water intrusion prevention system for a roof top sensor module includes a bolt, a cap nut, gaskets, and a rib. The module is connected to a roof of an autonomous vehicle, and includes a shell defining an interior and a sensor arranged therein. A shaft of the bolt is inserted up through an opening in the roof, up through an opening in the shell, and up through an opening in the rib so that a top portion of the shaft is arranged in the interior. The top portion of the shaft and the cap nut are connected together in the interior, which connects the module to the roof. The cap nut and the gaskets together form a liquid-tight seal that prevents liquid/water in the interior of the shell from passing through the opening in the roof into an interior of the vehicle under the roof.

Abstract: A device includes a rotary electric machine, a liquid supply member configured to supply liquid to the rotary electric machine, and a facing member facing the rotary electric machine in an axial direction with the liquid supply member interposed therebetween. The liquid is supplied to the liquid supply member via the facing member.

Abstract: A distributor includes at least: a first flow path through which refrigerant flowing in from a refrigerant inflow unit flows in a first direction toward a heat transfer tube disposed on the side of a refrigerant outflow unit; two second flow paths branched from the first flow path; two third flow paths, through each of which the refrigerant flows in a second direction opposite to the first direction; two fourth flow paths, each of which is formed to protrude from a main body toward the second direction and through each of which the refrigerant flows in a third direction intersecting the two third flow paths; and two fifth flow paths, through each of which the refrigerant flows in the first direction.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a plurality of heat transfer tubes, each of which extends in a first direction, arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; an upper header provided on an upper end of each of the plurality of heat transfer tubes and extending in the second direction; and a water guide covering a part of the upper header within a region of an angle formed by the first direction and a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction as viewed from a center of the upper header in the second direction, and guiding condensate generated on a surface of the upper header toward a position between the plurality of heat transfer tubes.

Abstract: An information recording and reproduction device includes a processor including hardware and configured to: acquire first information indicating information relating to a behavior of a driver from a first device mounted in a vehicle; acquire second information indicating information relating to a behavior of the vehicle from a second device mounted in the vehicle; and accumulate the first information and the second information in a memory in a synchronously reproducible manner.

Abstract: The object is to provide a technology of controlling warpage of a metal base plate occurring in temperature change from high temperature to room temperature by causing warpage in the metal base plate in temperature change from room temperature to high temperature. A warpage control structure for a metal base plate 1 includes the metal base plate 1, a dissimilar metal layer 2, and an insulation substrate 4. The dissimilar metal layer 2 is formed on a surface of the metal base plate 1. The insulation substrate 4 is joined to a surface of the dissimilar metal layer 2 with a joining material 3 being provided between the insulation substrate 4 and the surface of the dissimilar metal layer 2, and includes metal plates 42a and 42b disposed on both surfaces.

Abstract: A producing method of a power storage device includes roll pressing a mixture laminated portion of a wide strip-shaped electrode plate, non-laminated-portion stretching of stretching a pair of mixture non-laminated portions of the wide strip-shaped electrode plate in a longitudinal direction, laminated-portion stretching of stretching a pair of mixture non-laminated-portion-side sections of the mixture laminated portion located on the mixture non-laminated portion side, cutting the wide strip-shaped electrode plate at a center of a width direction in the longitudinal direction to divide into two strip-shaped electrode plates, winding up the two strip-shaped electrode plates around winding cores with applying tensile force in the longitudinal direction in a roll-like shape to form electrode rolls, and storing each of the electrode rolls.

Abstract: A evaluating method includes forming a plurality of processing traces each having a spot shape by irradiating different positions of an exposed surface of a workpiece with a laser beam according to respective height positions of a condensing point by moving a condenser for the laser beam and the workpiece relative to each other along a first direction as a direction of irradiation of the workpiece with the laser beam and thereby positioning the condensing point at a plurality of the height positions, and moving the condenser and the workpiece relative to each other along a second direction intersecting the first direction, obtaining an image of each of the processing traces, calculating an aspect ratio of each of the processing traces, and calculating an index indicating a degree of astigmatism on the basis of the plurality of height positions and the aspect ratio of each of the processing traces.

Abstract: There is provided a head including: a nozzle plate having a nozzle; a signal generator configured to generate, based on first and second data representing first and second driving waveforms, time division multiplex signal including first and second portions of the first driving waveform, third and fourth portions of the second driving waveform; and separator configured to separate first or second driving waveform signal representing the first or second driving waveform from the time division multiplex signal by performing a sampling. The separator is configured to perform the sampling with a sampling frequency less than a resonance frequency at the nozzle. The energy generating element is configured to be driven by the first or second driving waveform signal separated by the separator.

Abstract: A mounting eye (21) is fastened to a rod by pushing, partially or over an entire periphery, an outer periphery of a joint portion of a mounting eye into an annular groove of the rod. Accordingly, an axial length of a fastening portion can be set shorter than that of a related-art structure (screw fastening), thereby being capable of securing a stroke of the rod of a shock absorber in which the mounting eye is fastened to the rod.

Abstract: An actuator with reverse input blocking clutch has a function of switching the reverse input blocking clutch to a state in which torque can be transmitted between an input member and an output member, in a state in which reverse torque is input to the output member from an output-side mechanism, by applying torque to the input member by an actuator in an opposite direction to a direction of the reverse torque, and then by giving an instruction to the actuator to apply torque having a magnitude smaller than a magnitude of the reverse torque to the input member in the opposite direction, transmitting the reverse torque to the input member.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle roof top sensor module includes a shell attached to a roof of an autonomous vehicle. The shell includes a top panel, a bottom panel, and a front panel, which are connected together to define an interior, in which an internal sensor bracket is arranged to support a front middle portion of the top panel and provides a structure for mounting a sensor. The sensor is mounted on the sensor bracket and detects a characteristic of the autonomous vehicle or a characteristic of an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle. The sensor bracket connects the front middle portion of the top panel to the bottom panel, and thus inhibits sagging of the top panel, and also provides a structure for mounting sensors in the shell.

Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including: a nozzle; a head; a signal generating circuit configured to generate, based on at least a first data representing a first driving waveform and a second data representing a second driving waveform different from the first driving waveform, a time division multiplex signal; a separating circuit to which the time division multiplex signal is inputted and which includes a switch configured to separate, from the time division multiplex signal, a first driving waveform signal representing the first driving waveform or a second driving waveform signal representing the second driving waveform, based on a synchronization signal; and a synchronization signal generating circuit configured to generate the synchronization signal indicating an opening and closing timing of the switch. The synchronization signal generating circuit is a circuit different from the signal generating circuit.

Abstract: An actuator with reverse input blocking clutch has a function of switching the reverse input blocking clutch to a state in which torque can be transmitted between an input member and an output member, in a state in which reverse torque is input to the output member from an output-side mechanism, by applying torque to the input member by an actuator in an opposite direction to a direction of the reverse torque, and then by giving an instruction to the actuator to apply torque having a magnitude smaller than a magnitude of the reverse torque to the input member in the opposite direction, transmitting the reverse torque to the input member.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element and a lead part. The semiconductor element is mounted on a circuit pattern provided on an insulating substrate. The lead part has a plate shape and is bonded to the semiconductor element with a first bonding material interposed therebetween. The lead part includes a lead body and a bonding component. The lead body includes an opening part provided corresponding to a mounting position of the semiconductor element. The bonding component is provided in the opening part and on the semiconductor element. The bonding component is bonded at a lower surface thereof to the semiconductor element by the first bonding material and bonded at an outer peripheral part thereof to an inner periphery of the opening part by a second bonding material.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle roof top sensor module includes a shell attached to a roof of an autonomous vehicle. The shell includes a top panel, a bottom panel, and a front panel, which are connected together to define an interior, in which an internal sensor bracket is arranged to support a front middle portion of the top panel and provides a structure for mounting a sensor. The sensor is mounted on the sensor bracket and detects a characteristic of the autonomous vehicle or a characteristic of an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle. The sensor bracket connects the front middle portion of the top panel to the bottom panel, and thus inhibits sagging of the top panel, and also provides a structure for mounting sensors in the shell.

Abstract: A water intrusion prevention system for a roof top sensor module includes a bolt, a cap nut, gaskets, and a rib. The module is connected to a roof of an autonomous vehicle, and includes a shell defining an interior and a sensor arranged therein. A shaft of the bolt is inserted up through an opening in the roof, up through an opening in the shell, and up through an opening in the rib so that a top portion of the shaft is arranged in the interior. The top portion of the shaft and the cap nut are connected together in the interior, which connects the module to the roof. The cap nut and the gaskets together form a liquid-tight seal that prevents liquid/water in the interior of the shell from passing through the opening in the roof into an interior of the vehicle under the roof.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle roof top sensor module includes a shell configured to attach to a roof of an autonomous vehicle. The shell defines an interior in which a sensor is arranged. The sensor is for detecting a characteristic of the autonomous vehicle or a characteristic of an environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle. The shell includes two flanges, each of which includes two lifting features arranged thereon. The lifting features provide a connection point in the form of a through hole for attaching a mechanical lift system to the shell for lifting of the shell onto the roof. The module also includes two appliques that are attach to the roof and cover the lifting features, the flanges, and two portions of the roof not covered by the shell.

Abstract: There is provided droplet discharging apparatus including: nozzle configured to discharge liquid by energy generating element; first signal generator configured to generate, based on first and second data representing first and second driving waveforms, first time division multiplex signal; first separator configured to separate first or second driving waveform signal representing the first or second driving waveform from the first time division multiplex signal; second signal generator configured to generate, based on third and fourth data representing third and fourth driving waveforms, second time division multiplex signal; and second separator configured to separate third or fourth driving waveform signal representing the third or fourth driving waveform from the second time division multiplex signal. The energy generating element is driven by the first or second driving waveform signal separated by the first separator, or by the third or fourth driving waveform signal separated by the second separator.