Abstract: An open vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a traveling device, an external sensor, and an ECU. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface that forms a bottom surface of the riding space and is configured for a plurality of users to ride on. The ECU is configured to control the traveling device to cause the open vehicle to automatically travel. The ECU is configured to execute: a specific person recognition process to use the external sensor to recognize a specific person existing in an outside space; and an automatic travel control process to control the traveling device such that, when the specific person exists within a predetermined distance range, the traveling device executes at least one of moving the open vehicle away from the specific person and increasing a vehicle speed as compared to when the specific person does not exist within the range.

Abstract: A stand-up vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a handrail, one or more biometric information sensors, and one or more processors. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface on which a user stands. The handrail is provided at an upper portion of the vehicle and is gripped by a user. The one or more biometric information sensors are at least one of a sensor provided on a handrail and a weight sensor provided below a riding surface and having the riding surface as a weight detection surface, and detect biometric information of the user. The one or more processors perform notification processing for notifying a user of biometric information detected by the one or more biometric information sensors.

Abstract: In a stand-up vehicle having a vehicle upper part having a riding surface configured for a user to stand on, one or more electronic control units execute emergency situation detection processing for detecting an emergency of the user when receiving notification from the user or based on information from one or more sensors, safety posture determination processing for determining whether or not the user takes a safety posture based on information from one or more sensors after detecting the emergency, and upper limit speed management processing executed when detecting the emergency and determining that the user takes the safety posture. The upper limit speed management process increases the upper limit speed to be higher than the basic upper limit speed selected when the safety posture determination process determines that the user is not in the safety posture, or cancels the upper limit speed.

Abstract: An automatic traveling vehicle includes a vehicle structure including a first top plate, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a storage mode when a storage execution condition is satisfied. The storage mode includes a storage posture formation process of causing the vehicle to automatically travel so as to take a predetermined storage posture together with a counterpart automatic traveling vehicle. In the storage posture, the vehicle is in a superposition state in which the vehicle overlaps with the counterpart vehicle in a plan view, or a parallel state in which the vehicle is lined up with the counterpart vehicle while the first top plate and a second top plate of the counterpart vehicle are standing and facing each other so as to be parallel to or substantially parallel to a vertical direction.

Abstract: Magnet slot includes a permanent magnet insertion portion and air regions that is formed at both circumferential direction ends of the permanent magnet insertion portion. The air region includes a first circumferentially extending portion that extends from a circumferentially end portion of the permanent magnet insertion portion to a circumferentially outer side, a radially extending portion that extends from the first circumferentially extending portion to a radially inner side, and a second circumferentially extending portion that extends from the radially extending portion to a circumferentially inner side until reaching between the radially inner peripheral surface of the permanent magnet insertion portion and the shaft hole. A radially inner end surface of the radially extending portion and a radially inner end surface of the second circumferentially extending portion are made up of a portion of a circular arc in contact with the circumferentially outer side surface of the radially extending portion.

Abstract: A stator reducing a coil end height without interference between conductor segments and without damage to an insulating coating. Each conductor segment includes linear parts inserted in slots formed in a stator core and different in circumferential direction, inclined parts inclined and extending from respective end parts of the linear parts toward a center part so as to project toward the outside in an axis direction from an axis-direction end surface of the core, and a projecting curve part connecting apical ends of the inclined parts to each other and curves and projects toward the outside in the axis direction. Connection parts between the linear parts and the inclined parts and a curved part of the projecting curve part are all bent parts having the same bend radius of minimum R, which has a size equal to or more than a sheet width of a conductor strand.

Abstract: Magnet slot includes a permanent magnet insertion portion and air regions that is formed at both circumferential direction ends of the permanent magnet insertion portion. The air region includes a first circumferentially extending portion that extends from a circumferentially end portion of the permanent magnet insertion portion to a circumferentially outer side, a radially extending portion that extends from the first circumferentially extending portion to a radially inner side, and a second circumferentially extending portion that extends from the radially extending portion to a circumferentially inner side until reaching between the radially inner peripheral surface of the permanent magnet insertion portion and the shaft hole. A radially inner end surface of the radially extending portion and a radially inner end surface of the second circumferentially extending portion are made up of a portion of a circular arc in contact with the circumferentially outer side surface of the radially extending portion.

Abstract: A stator reducing a coil end height without interference between conductor segments and without damage to an insulating coating. Each conductor segment includes linear parts inserted in slots formed in a stator core and different in circumferential direction, inclined parts inclined and extending from respective end parts of the linear parts toward a center part so as to project toward the outside in an axis direction from an axis-direction end surface of the core, and a projecting curve part connecting apical ends of the inclined parts to each other and curves and projects toward the outside in the axis direction. Connection parts between the linear parts and the inclined parts and a curved part of the projecting curve part are all bent parts having the same bend radius of minimum R, which has a size equal to or more than a sheet width of a conductor strand.

Abstract: To prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam, a bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.

Abstract: To prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam, a bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.

Abstract: It is aimed to prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam. A bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. The bottle rotated and conveyed in a state supported by the bottle support unit is irradiated with the electron beam from an electron beam irradiator to thereby sterilize the bottle. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.

Abstract: It is aimed to prevent electrical charging inside a resin material as well as a surface of a resin vessel at a time of sterilizing the resin vessel by being irradiated with electron beam. A bottle support unit is mounted to a lower end portion of a cylindrical rotating shaft rotatably supported by a rotating wheel. The bottle support unit includes a pair of griper members by which a mouth portion of a bottle is gripped. The bottle rotated and conveyed in a state supported by the bottle support unit is irradiated with the electron beam from an electron beam irradiator to thereby sterilize the bottle. A ground electrode is disposed to be capable of being inserted into the interior of the resin vessel through a mouth portion thereof, and the interior of the resin vessel is irradiated with the electron beam in a state of the ground electrode being inserted into the resin vessel.

Abstract: An upstream side wheel includes grippers B which do not perform opening and closing operations for themselves, and a downstream side wheel includes grippers A each having an opening and closing mechanism, and in a delivery position in which both the wheels are adjacent to each other, a plastic bottle 1 is delivered from the gripper B to the gripper A. Here, if the upstream side wheel or the downstream side wheel abnormally stops, the grippers A are switched from a use state to a retreat state. Thereby, interference between plastic bottles gripped by the upstream side grippers and the grippers of the downstream side wheel is avoided. Even if one of the wheels abnormally stops, the other wheel can be continuously operated without increasing the equipment in size.

Abstract: An upstream side wheel Ha including grippers B which do not perform opening and closing operations for themselves, and a downstream side wheel Hb including grippers A each having an opening and closing mechanism are included, and in a delivery position in which both the wheels are adjacent to each other, a plastic bottle 1 is delivered from the gripper B to the gripper A. Here, if the upstream side wheel or the downstream side wheel abnormally stops, control means controls retreating means C provided at the downstream side wheel to switch the grippers A to a retreat state from a use state to make an opening degree of a first and second grip members 23 and 24 of each of the grippers A larger than an opening degree of both the grip members in the use state. Thereby, interference of the plastic bottles gripped by the upstream side grippers and the first and second grip members can be prevented.

Abstract: A music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system, that permits users to access, display, listen to and/or download registered data designated by the users, comprises a music data server, for uploading and registering music data held by applicants and for distributing the music data on line upon receiving requests from users; a mail magazine server, for registering correlated character data and image data associated with the applicants, and music data and for distributing on line the character data and the image data together with information provided from the music data distribution, mail magazine issuing system; and a total management server, for managing and controlling the entire system, for determining legal registration appropriateness and for selecting and registering only legally appropriate date. Entertainers or musicians can register their original work data via the Internet, and an unspecified number of users can access and use the registered work data via the Internet.

Abstract: A thermal transfer sheet includes a support and, provided thereon, at least a yellow dye-holding layer, a magenta dye-holding layer, and a cyan dye-holding layer, the dye-holding layers each including a thermal transfer dye and a binder resin, the yellow dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 1 and/or a dye represented by the following formula 2, the magenta dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 3 and at least one dye selected from those represented by the following formulae 4 and 5; and the cyan dye-holding layer includes as the thermal transfer dye, a dye represented by the following formula 6: ##STR1##

Abstract: A method for forming an image on an object, including the steps of:thermally transferring a dye from a thermal transfer sheet to the dye-receptive layer of a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet thereby to form a dye image on the sheet;contacting the dye-receptive layer side of the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet with an object;thermally transferring the dye image on the thermal transfer image-receiving sheet to the object by heating of the sheet; andpeeling the sheet from the object.