Abstract: A method for controlling a mobile shop includes: determining a selling situation of a plurality of items using information about an inventory status of the plurality of items and information about a well-selling time of the plurality of items; setting a charging schedule for a battery (secondary battery) based on the selling situation; and causing the mobile shop to move to EVSE (charging facility) according to the charging schedule.

Abstract: A circuit module comprises a substrate module, an electronic component, and a first conductive joining member. The substrate module includes a circuit substrate having an upper main surface and a lower main surface, an insulating member covering the upper main surface of the circuit substrate, an insulating member covering the upper main surface of the circuit substrate, and a first metal pin that passes through the insulating member parallel to a vertical axis and is electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The first metal pin has a first exposed portion. The first exposed portion is exposed from the insulating member to face a right direction. A first outer electrode has a left projecting portion projecting in a left direction from the left surface. A first conductive joining member joins the first exposed portion and the left projecting portion to each other.

Abstract: An attachment member 12 of a connection direction converting connector 1a includes a frame-shaped second seal member 124 configured to seal between: a frame-shaped housing-side opposing surface 122a-6 of the attachment housing 122 that surrounds the accommodation portion that contains a connection portion between an attachment terminal 121 and a connector terminal 112 and faces the shell 123; and a frame-shaped shell-side opposing surface 123k of the shell 123 that faces the housing-side opposing surface 122a-6.

Abstract: A connector for a shielded electric wire includes: a shield terminal connected to a braid on one end side thereof and grounding the braid by contact at a leaf spring on the other end side thereof; a first packing (sealing member) that seals between a housing and an object inserted into a through hole from an inner surface of the housing to an inner surface of the through hole; and a support member that is a resin ring exteriorly mounted on the shield terminal to be adjacent to the leaf spring and disposed inside the through hole in such a manner that an outer circumferential edge thereof is in contact with the inner surface of the through hole, thereby suppressing an offset of a central axis of the shield terminal with respect to a central axis of the through hole.

Abstract: A fastening structure 100 of metal plates includes a first metal plate 2 including a first hole portion 2A, a second metal plate 3 including a second hole portion 3A, and a fastening material B1 fastened to penetrate the first hole portion and the second hole portion, with the first metal plate and the second metal plate overlapping each other, wherein the first metal plate is provided with protrusions 24, 24, the second metal plate is provided with receiving portions 31A, 31B in which the protrusions fit, and with the protrusions fitting in the receiving portions, the first metal plate is restricted from rotating with respect to the second metal plate.

Abstract: A taxi vehicle management method includes: evaluating, based on DR contribution history information, a degree of contribution to demand response for energy management by a driver of a taxi vehicle, the DR contribution history information indicating a history of contribution to the DR by the driver using a power storage device of the taxi vehicle; and determining a calculation formula of a fare of the taxi vehicle driven by the driver, using a result of evaluation of the degree of contribution by the driver. The determining the calculation formula of the fare includes determining the calculation formula of the fare such that the fare becomes lower as the degree of contribution to the DR by the driver becomes higher.

Abstract: In the present invention, an estimator for estimating the number of fish present in an underwater space is constructed by means of machine learning using, as teaching data, a plurality of data sets for learning that each include an echo image for learning, the echo image being based on received sound waves reflected by fish when sound waves are transmitted in an underwater space where fish are present, and the number of fish present in the underwater space in the echo image. The plurality of data sets for learning each include: an echo image for learning that is based on received sound waves reflected by fish when sound waves are transmitted in the underwater space where fish are present; and the number of fish present in the underwater space in the echo image.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus is configured to polish a peripheral edge of an object. The apparatus includes: a stage having a mounting surface to mount the object; a polishing head configured to press a polishing surface against the peripheral edge and polish the peripheral edge; a first inlet configured to supply liquid to the polishing surface; and a protector having a first surface extending along a first direction intersecting with the mounting surface, the first surface having an opening between the stage and the polishing head in a second direction intersecting with the first direction.

Abstract: An earthquake estimation method for more promptly estimating an earthquake on the basis of observation data. The earthquake estimation method includes, by a computer: generating an observation image showing a spatial distribution of seismic wave propagation on a basis of an observation result of seismic waves at a plurality of observation points on a ground; and estimating a parameter of an earthquake with respect to the observation image by using an earthquake estimation model in which a parameter of an earthquake including at least a position of a hypocenter and a magnitude is associated with a simulated observation image showing a spatial distribution of seismic wave propagation on a ground obtained from a result of a numerical simulation of the earthquake, performed with the parameter.

Abstract: An air-conditioning-apparatus system includes an air-conditioning apparatus and a remote-operation centralized control apparatus connected with the air-conditioning apparatus via a network. The air-conditioning apparatus includes an infrared sensor and a drive control unit. The infrared sensor includes a drive actuator and is capable of acquiring temperature information on a location of one part of a room. The drive control unit controls the drive actuator to acquire temperature information on a plurality of locations in the room. The air-conditioning apparatus or the remote-operation centralized control apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores the temperature information on the locations in the room that is acquired by the infrared sensor under a control by the drive control unit; and a thermal image forming unit that forms a thermal image of the room based on the temperature information on the locations in the room that is stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide colloidal silica for metal polishing that is capable of achieving a high polishing rate. This problem can be achieved by a colloidal silica for metal polishing, comprising a silica particle having a surface on which a functional group having at least one carboxyl group is immobilized by covalent bonding.

Abstract: An earthquake estimation method for more promptly estimating an earthquake on the basis of observation data. The earthquake estimation method includes, by a computer: generating an observation image showing a spatial distribution of seismic wave propagation on a basis of an observation result of seismic waves at a plurality of observation points on a ground; and estimating a parameter of an earthquake with respect to the observation image by using an earthquake estimation model in which a parameter of an earthquake including at least a position of a hypocenter and a magnitude is associated with a simulated observation image showing a spatial distribution of seismic wave propagation on a ground obtained from a result of a numerical simulation of the earthquake, performed with the parameter.

Abstract: A movable mold includes a main mold part, a separate mold part separate from the main mold part, and a relative movement mechanism moving the separate mold part relative to the main mold part in a driving direction of a mold driver.

Abstract: In an air-conditioning apparatus, in the case where a compressor is in operation, a fan is in operation, a wind guide plate is in a first state and a second heat exchanger operates as a condenser, when a detected temperature of target space for air-conditioning is higher than a set temperature for the target space and a detected temperature of a second heat exchanger is lower than or equal to a first reference temperature, a controller performs a first control to keep the compressor and the fan in operation and switch the state of the wind guide plate from the first state to a second state.

Abstract: A one-side submerged arc welding method, includes joining two steel plates butted against each other by submerged arc welding from one side using a plurality of electrodes. During the submerged arc welding, at least one of electrode distances between adjacent electrodes in an end part region of the steel plates is reduced to be smaller than the at least one of electrode distances in a region in front of the end part region. Variation in heat input into the electrode moved so as to reduce the at least one of electrode distances in a transitional region in which the at least one of electrode distances is reduced is within 20% relative to the heat input at a starting point of the transitional region.

Abstract: In a related-art air-conditioning apparatus, air is conditioned while an airflow direction or an airflow is directed to a position of a human body detected by a human body detection sensor, and hence the same air-stream control is performed for both of a person who feels comfortable and a person who feels hot. An air-conditioning apparatus according to the present invention can adjust an angle of an airflow-direction flap in accordance with a thermal sensation level, and hence air-stream control matching thermal sensation of a human body can be performed.

Abstract: A one-side submerged arc welding method, includes joining two steel plates butted against each other by submerged arc welding from one side using a plurality of electrode. During the submerged arc welding, at least one of electrode distances between adjacent electrodes in an end part region of the steel plates is reduced to be smaller than the at least one of electrode distances in a region in front of the end part region. In reducing the at least one of electrode distances, an increasing section of change rate from when a change of the at least one of electrode distances starts to when the change rate of the at least one of electrode distances reaches its maximum has a time of 2 seconds or more.

Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes an indoor unit including a pair of lateral air-directing vanes each configured to adjust an orientation of an air flow blown from an air outlet in a lateral direction, and a remote control device configured to receive selection of at least two of a plurality of air flow directions in the lateral direction. The indoor unit includes an indoor-unit controller configured to individually adjust operations of the pair of lateral air-directing vanes in accordance with the selection of the plurality of air flow directions in the remote control device such that a left partial air flow does not collide with a right partial air flow.

Abstract: A vehicle traveling support control apparatus includes a traveling environment determining portion that determines a traveling environment of a vehicle, a support device determining portion that determines a serviceable traveling support device from one or more traveling support devices mounted in the vehicle in accordance with the traveling environment determined by the traveling environment determining portion, a presentation portion that presents support guidance of the serviceable traveling support device, and a control portion that controls the presentation portion to present the support guidance of the serviceable traveling support device based on use frequency of the serviceable traveling support device determined by the support device determining portion.

Abstract: In an air-conditioning apparatus, in the case where a compressor is in operation, a fan is in operation, a wind guide plate is in a first state and a second heat exchanger operates as a condenser, when a detected temperature of target space for air-conditioning is higher than a set temperature for the target space and a detected temperature of a second heat exchanger is lower than or equal to a first reference temperature, a controller performs a first control to keep the compressor and the fan in operation and switch the state of the wind guide plate from the first state to a second state.