Abstract: A display device includes a light-transmitting portion, a display light source arranged at an inner side of the light-transmitting portion, and a housing including an opening. The housing accommodates the display light source and the light-transmitting portion is arranged in the opening. The light-transmitting portion includes a transparent plastic base member, a first color exhibiting layer containing dye or pigment, and a second color exhibiting layer containing a filler made of a cold mirror thin film. The first color exhibiting layer has a transmittance of 20% or more for light having a specific wavelength. The second color exhibiting layer has a reflectance of 80% or less for light having a wavelength not absorbed by the dye or the pigment of the first color exhibiting layer and a transmittance of 60% or more for light having a wavelength absorbed by the dye or the pigment of the first color exhibiting layer.

Abstract: An advertisement providing device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a travel time between bus stops; a time setting unit setting, based on the travel time, an advertisement playable time during which at least one of advertisements is played back; a playback number calculation unit calculating a number of playbacks of the advertisements based on the advertisement playable time and an advertisement duration time that is set for each advertisement; and a playback unit playing back at least one of the advertisements according to the number of playbacks of the advertisements. When an interruption during travel operation has occurred, the playback number calculation unit recalculates the number of playbacks of the advertisements based on a remaining time of the advertisement playable time and a time of occurrence of the interruption.

Abstract: A main comparator compares a feedback voltage VFB corresponding to an output voltage VOUT of a DC/DC converter with a reference voltage VREF and asserts a turn-on signal when the feedback voltage VFB falls below the reference voltage VREF. A timer circuit generates a turn-off signal S2 that transitions in level after an ON time TON proportional to (VOUT?VIN/VOUT has elapsed from assertion of the turn-on signal.

Abstract: A display device includes a light-transmitting portion, a display light source arranged at an inner side of the light-transmitting portion, and a housing including an opening. The housing accommodates the display light source and the light-transmitting portion is arranged in the opening. The light-transmitting portion includes a transparent plastic base member, a first color exhibiting layer containing dye or pigment, and a second color exhibiting layer containing a filler made of a cold mirror thin film. The first color exhibiting layer has a transmittance of 20% or more for light having a specific wavelength. The second color exhibiting layer has a reflectance of 80% or less for light having a wavelength not absorbed by the dye or the pigment of the first color exhibiting layer and a transmittance of 60% or more for light having a wavelength absorbed by the dye or the pigment of the first color exhibiting layer.

Abstract: An exterior structure includes a non-light-transmitting portion configured to not transmit an external light, and a light-transmitting portion arranged near the non-light-transmitting portion and configured to reflect and transmit the external light. Light released outward from the non-light-transmitting portion includes light reflected by the non-light-transmitting portion. Light released outward from the light-transmitting portion includes a combination of light reflected by the light-transmitting portion and light applied to the light-transmitting portion from an inner side and passing through the light-transmitting portion. The color difference ?E between the light released outward from the non-light-transmitting portion and the light released outward from the light-transmitting portion is 5 or less.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave sensor cover, applied to an electromagnetic wave sensor including a transmission unit and a reception unit, includes a cover main body portion that covers the transmission unit and the reception unit. The cover main body portion includes: a base material formed of a resin material and having a transmission property of an electromagnetic wave from the transmission unit; an undercoat layer formed on a rear surface of the base material and having the transmission property of the electromagnetic wave from the transmission unit; a heater portion that is formed of copper in a band shape on a rear surface of the undercoat layer, is configured to generate heat by being energized, and adheres to the base material via the undercoat layer; and a SiO2 coating film having the transmission property of the electromagnetic wave from the transmission unit and covering the heater portion.

Abstract: A sparkle coating film contains an infrared-transmissive base plastic and a filler added to the base plastic. The filler includes cold mirror flakes. Each cold mirror flake includes multiple first dielectric layers and multiple second dielectric layers having a refractive index lower than that of the first dielectric layers. The first dielectric layers and the second dielectric layers are laminated alternately. The cold mirror flakes each allow infrared light to pass through while reflecting visible light.

Abstract: To provide a technique of continuously imparting favorable water-repellent performance to a vehicle exterior member for a long period. A method for setting a condition for recoating a vehicle exterior member with a water-repellent coating film, the method including: a peeling step of peeling a water-repellent coating film formed on a surface of the vehicle exterior member; a recoating step of forming a water-repellent coating film onto the surface to obtain a coating-film-formed vehicle exterior member, the recoating step being subsequent to the peeling step; and an assessment step of adhering a test liquid drop onto the water-repellent coating film formed through the recoating step, and making a water-repellency assessment, wherein the assessment step includes making, when a fall-off angle of the test liquid drop is not greater than 20°, an assessment that a recoating condition used in the peeling step and the recoating step is an acceptable recoating condition.

Abstract: An infrared transmissive product includes a body. The body is configured to cover a transmitting unit and a receiving unit for infrared rays in an infrared sensor. The body includes a base made of a transparent plastic having an infrared transmissivity, and a coating film layer that is formed on a rear surface of the base in a transmission direction of infrared rays from the transmitting unit and has an infrared transmissivity. The coating film layer includes dispersed aggregates of particles of a pigment.

Abstract: A business activity size estimation device acquires patent publications having an estimation-subject company as applicant and/or patent publications appended with a higher level patent classification corresponding to an estimation-subject business activity, counts appended genera of a lower level patent classification appended to the acquired patent publications, and uses a correlation of the counted appended genera of the lower level patent classification correlated with a business activity size of the estimation-subject company and/or a size of the estimation-subject business activity to estimate the business activity size of the estimation-subject company and/or the size of the estimation-subject business activity.

Abstract: An infrared transmissive product includes a body. The body is configured to cover a transmitting unit and a receiving unit for infrared rays in an infrared sensor. The body includes a base made of a transparent plastic having an infrared transmissivity, and a coating film layer that is formed on a rear surface of the base in a transmission direction of infrared rays from the transmitting unit and has an infrared transmissivity. The coating film layer includes dispersed aggregates of particles of a pigment.

Abstract: An infrared transmissive product includes a body. The body includes a base made of a transparent plastic having an infrared transmissivity and a black layer formed on a rear surface of the base in a transmission direction of infrared rays from a transmitting unit. The black layer includes a coating film layer. The coating film layer is formed by combining a transparent plastic and at least two types of dyes/pigments that have an infrared transmissivity and produce a black color when mixed together. The black layer has a thickness in a range from 5 ?m to 50 ?m. The black layer contains 50 to 150 parts by mass of dyes/pigments as a whole in relation to 100 parts by mass of transparent plastic.

Abstract: An infrared transmissive product includes a body. The body is configured to cover a transmitting unit and a receiving unit for infrared rays in an infrared sensor. The body includes a base made of a transparent plastic having an infrared transmissivity, and a coating film layer that is formed on a rear surface of the base in a transmission direction of infrared rays from the transmitting unit and has an infrared transmissivity. The coating film layer includes dispersed aggregates of particles of a pigment.

Abstract: To provide a Sn-based plated steel sheet capable of exhibiting superior corrosion resistance, yellowing resistance, coating film adhesiveness, and sulphide stain resistance without using a chromate film. A Sn-based plated steel sheet of the present invention includes: a steel sheet; a Sn-based plating layer located on at least one surface of the steel sheet; and a coating layer located on the Sn-based plating layer, wherein the Sn-based plating layer contains 1.0 g/m2 to 15.0 g/m2 of Sn per side in terms of metal Sn, the coating layer contains zirconium oxide, and a content of the zirconium oxide is 1.0 mg/m2 to 10.0 mg/m2 per side in terms of metal Zr, the zirconium oxide includes zirconium oxide with an amorphous structure, and a crystalline layer whose main component is zirconium oxide with a crystalline structure is present on an upper layer of the zirconium oxide with the amorphous structure.

Abstract: To provide a Sn-based plated steel sheet capable of exhibiting superior corrosion resistance, yellowing resistance, coating film adhesiveness, and sulphide stain resistance without using a chromate film. A Sn-based plated steel sheet of the present invention includes: a steel sheet; a Sn-based plating layer located on at least one surface of the steel sheet; and a coating layer located on the Sn-based plating layer, wherein the Sn-based plating layer contains 1.0 g/m2 to 15.0 g/m2 of Sn per side in terms of metal Sn, the coating layer contains zirconium oxide, and a content of the zirconium oxide is 1.0 mg/m2 to 10.0 mg/m2 per side in terms of metal Zr, the zirconium oxide includes zirconium oxide with an amorphous structure, and a crystalline layer whose main component is zirconium oxide with a crystalline structure is present on an upper layer of the zirconium oxide with the amorphous structure.

Abstract: A garnish includes a heating element, a base member, and a circuit board. The heating element is configured by stacking first and second sheet materials and interposing a heater wire in between. The circuit board includes a power source line and is fixed to a back surface of the base member. The heating element includes a main body portion and an extending portion. The extending portion includes a power source connection portion for connecting the heater wire to the power source line and extends to the back surface of the base member. The main body portion of the heating element is fixed to a laying surface of the base member by fixing the second sheet material to the base member. The heater wire is exposed in the power source connection portion without stacking the second sheet material on the first sheet material.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave sensor cover includes a cover body. The cover body includes a base layer made of synthetic resin and permitting passage of an electromagnetic wave, one or more metal oxide layers permitting passage of the electromagnetic wave and being conductive, one or more low refractive index layers permitting passage of the electromagnetic wave and made of material that has a lower refractive index than material of the metal oxide layer, and two electrodes. The base layer includes a front surface and a rear surface in a transmission direction of the electromagnetic wave. The metal oxide layer and the low refractive index layer are laminated adjacent to each other in the transmission direction. A laminate of the metal oxide layer and the low refractive index layer is laminated on the front surface or the rear surface of the base layer.

Abstract: A first comparator is enabled during a period in which a wake-up signal is asserted and asserts a first detection signal indicative of a comparison result between a first feedback voltage generated by a first voltage dividing circuit and a first threshold voltage. A second comparator is always enabled and asserts a second detection signal indicative of a comparison result between a second feedback voltage VFB generated by a second voltage dividing circuit and a second threshold voltage VTH. A logic circuit generates a first pulse signal based on a first detection signal or a second detection signal, asserts the wake-up signal in a non-light load state, and negates the wake-up signal in a light load state.

Abstract: A main comparator compares a feedback voltage VFB corresponding to an output voltage VOUT of a DC/DC converter with a reference voltage VREF and asserts a turn-on signal when the feedback voltage VFB falls below the reference voltage VREF. A timer circuit generates a turn-off signal S2 that transitions in level after an ON time TON proportional to (VOUT?VIN/VOUT has elapsed from assertion of the turn-on signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-repellent film having frost resistance, including a hygroscopic layer provided on or above a substrate, and a water-repellent layer provided on or above the hygroscopic layer, in which the water-repellent layer contains a water-repellent layer substrate and a water-repellent component attached to the water-repellent layer substrate.