Abstract: A manufacturing method of an animal litter box includes: a mold preparation process of preparing a mold for molding a resin molding product that forms at least a part of the animal litter box and has a urinary contact portion, the mold including an injection hole for injecting resin; a resin injecting process of injecting the resin from the injection hole; and a smoothing process of smoothing the resin of the urinary contact portion, the resin facing an inner opening of the injection hole, after the resin injecting process.

Abstract: A work system includes a mounting system which mounts a component on a board and an unmanned conveyance system having an unmanned conveyance vehicle. The unmanned conveyance system includes a first notifier which notifies the mounting system of an arrival notification indicating that the unmanned conveyance vehicle arrives at a position where separating the feeder carriage from the base starts, and a first processor which causes the unmanned conveyance vehicle to travel in a direction away from the base upon receiving, from the mounting system, a release notification indicating that a connection of the feeder carriage is released. The mounting system includes a second processor which causes the connection mechanism to release the connection of the feeder carriage upon receiving the arrival notification, and a second notifier which notifies the unmanned conveyance system of the release notification upon being informed of completion of the release operation.

Abstract: Provided is a shopping cart capable of simplifying equipment of a storage area of the shopping cart. A shopping cart allowed to be nested in a front-rear direction, including: a cart body; a battery configured to supply power to an electronic device attached to the cart body and displayed commodity information read by a reading device; a power receiving portion provided on a front side of the cart body and configured to be electrically connectable to an external power supply; and a power transmitting portion provided on a rear surface side of the power receiving portion and configured to supply power to a power receiving portion of another shopping cart nested in the shopping cart. Each of the power receiving portion and the power transmitting portion is provided with a magnet configured for holding a relative position.

Abstract: An operation management system manages operations carried out by people in charge of operation regarding a common operation target, including: an operation information database storing operation information related to implementation of the operations; a start notification unit that notifies each person of the start of each operation when the start notification unit detects occurrence of a predetermined trigger event in the operation target; an operation flow construction unit that constructs an operation flow indicating the operation to be carried out by each person in relation to the trigger event, on the basis of the operation information database; an information providing unit that provides, to each person, the operation information with content suitable for the person in charge of operation on the basis of the operation flow; and a progress notification unit that notifies each person of progress of the operation.

Abstract: A robot system (1) includes the robot (10), a motion sensor (11), a surrounding environment sensor (12, 13), an operation apparatus (21), a learning control section (41), and a relay apparatus (30). The robot (10) performs work based on an operation command. The operation apparatus (21) detects and outputs an operator-operating force applied by the operator. The learning control section (41) outputs a calculation operating force. The relay apparatus (30) outputs the operation command based on the operator-operating force and the calculation operating force. The learning control section (41) estimates and outputs the calculation operating force by using a model constructed by performing the machine learning of the operator-operating force, the surrounding environment data, the operation data, and the operation command based on the operation data and the surrounding environment data outputted by the sensors (11 to 13), and the operation command outputted by the relay apparatus (30).

Abstract: An antenna device, for a mobile body, of this disclosure includes an antenna configured to be installed in the mobile body, and a reflector having a reflection surface configured to change a beam direction of the antenna.

Abstract: An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.

Abstract: An air-permeable adhesive sheet has air permeability in a thickness direction thereof and including an adhesive agent layer having first through holes extending in the thickness direction, wherein at least one surface of the adhesive agent layer forms an adhesive surface, the through holes have an average opening diameter of 1.0 to 50 ?m and an average interval of 5 to 400 ?m, and a variation in air permeability in the thickness direction is 22% or less as represented by a coefficient of variation of an air permeability measured according to Method B for air permeability measurement (Gurley method) specified in JIS L 1096: 2010, with an effective measurement area as a predetermined value selected from 0.5 to 2.0 mm2. The air-permeable adhesive sheet is a sheet capable of obtaining good characteristics such as air permeability even when being made into a sheet having a small area.

Abstract: A storage apparatus stores existing data including data relating to management of an instrument and data on actual records of the instrument, information on path structure of the existing data, mission information relating to a task in the facility operation, and information on the path structure of the mission information. An arithmetic operation apparatus extracts information on data meanings of terms contained in the existing data based on the existing data and the path structure of the existing data, and generates information of the degree of association between the plurality of terms. The arithmetic operation apparatus generates mission management information based on mission information, the path structure of the mission information, and the information on the degree of association between the terms, the mission management information including information on a meaning of each of a plurality of tasks relating to facility operation and chronological information on the plurality of tasks.

Abstract: A vehicle light fixture system includes: a low-beam unit adapted to form a low-beam light distribution pattern having a cutoff line and to independently adjust illuminance in a plurality of subareas in the low-beam light distribution pattern arranged below and along the cutoff line; and a light distribution control device that controls the low-beam unit to form a first reduced illuminance portion in, of the plurality of subareas, the subarea having a position in a vehicle width direction overlapping a position of a vehicle in front in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: An animal litter box includes a liquid passage portion having openings through which urine passes downward, and on which granules are disposed. The animal litter box includes an absorbent-body placement portion in which an absorbent body for absorbing the urine that has passed through the liquid passage portion is disposed. Each of the openings extends in a longitudinal direction. A maximum width of the openings in a width direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction is equal to or smaller than 2.5 mm.

Abstract: A seal member includes a ?? precipitation-hardening alloy, in which the ?? precipitation-hardening alloy has a component composition of, in mass %: Ni: from 40 to 62%; Cr: from 13 to 20%; Ti: from 1.5 to 2.8%; Al: from 1.0 to 2.0% (provided that Ti/Al: 2.0 or less); Nb: 2.0% or less; Ta: 2.0% or less (provided that Nb+Ta: from 0.2 to 2.0%); B: from 0.001 to 0.010%; W: 3.0% or less; and Mo: 2.0% or less (provided that Mo+(1/2)W: from 1.0 to 2.5%), and optionally, C: 0.08% or less; Si: 1.0% or less; Mn: 1.0% or less; P: 0.02% or less; and S: 0.01% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and in which the seal member has a hardness of 250 Hv or more, and includes a cold-rolled microstructure obtained by a cold rolling.

Abstract: An electronic device, an information processing method, and a program with high security are proposed. The electronic device includes a fingerprint sensor and a control unit. The control unit detects a fingerprint and a gesture of a finger that performs a touch operation on the fingerprint sensor. The control unit executes processing associated with the fingerprint and the gesture detected at the time of the touch operation while performing fingerprint authentication based on the fingerprint detected at the time of the touch operation.

Abstract: A transmission structure of a helicopter according to one aspect is a transmission structure that transmits power from a prime mover to a rotary wing in the helicopter. The transmission structure includes: a housing; an input shaft that transmits the power of the prime mover to a gear arranged in the housing; a bearing supporting the input shaft in the housing such that the input shaft is rotatable, the bearing including an annular inner ring that holds the input shaft, an annular outer ring that is arranged outside the inner ring in a radial direction and fixed to the housing, and rolling elements sandwiched between the inner ring and the outer ring; and a sleeve that is sandwiched between an inner peripheral surface of the inner ring and the input shaft and is lower in heat conductivity than the inner ring and the input shaft.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive comprising a polymer (X1) containing 48% by mass or more of a constituent unit derived from at least one monomer (Y) selected from the group consisting of a monomer (A1) represented by the following general formula (1) and a monomer (B1) represented by the following general formula (2), in which a tan ? (23° C.) determined as G? (23° C.)/G? (23° C.) is 0.8 to 1.3, wherein a storage elastic modulus and a loss coefficient at 23° C. are respectively represented by G? (23° C.) and G? (23° C.). In the formula (1), R1 represents H or CH3, R2 represents —CnH2n+1 and n represents an integer of 7 to 14. In the formula (2), R3 represents —C(?O)CmH2m+1 and m represents an integer of 7 to 13. Thus, retention force under high temperature, low-temperature attachability, and adhesiveness to a low-polar adherend are favorable along with a high bio rate.

Abstract: An absorbent sheet for a pet toilet is provided. The pet toilet includes: a sheet accommodating portion that accommodates the absorbent sheet in a space surrounded by a bottom portion and side walls standing from the bottom portion; and an excretion receiving portion that receives excretions above the sheet accommodating portion and guides the excretions to the sheet accommodating portion. The absorbent sheet includes: a topsheet on a top side of the absorbent sheet and that includes fibers; a backsheet on a back side of the absorbent sheet; an absorber between the topsheet and the backsheet; a central region in which the absorber is disposed in plan view; and side regions that extend outside the central region and in which at least the topsheet is disposed.

Abstract: A controller controls the steering device so as to cause a vehicle body to turn toward the left when a left steering lever is operated without a right steering lever being operated. The controller controls the steering device so as to cause the vehicle body to turn toward the right when the right steering lever is operated without the left steering lever being operated. The controller reduces the rotation speed of the engine when both the left steering lever and the right steering lever are operated and both the operation amount of the left steering lever and the operation amount of the right steering lever are equal to or greater than a first threshold.

Abstract: A linear-motor type transport device for transporting material for an absorbent article includes: a shaft portion that has an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction; a pair of guide portions that is disposed on the shaft portion with a predetermined axial-direction space between the guide portions and that forms an orbital transport path that extends along the circumferential direction; a mobile unit that moves on the transport path along the guide portions while supporting a transport head rotatably about a rotation axis; a cam mechanism that rotates the transport head about the rotation axis through a predetermined angle when the mobile unit is moved on the transport path; and a controller that moves the mobile unit by supplying currents to conductors and generating a propulsive force between one of the conductors and a magnet that is disposed on the mobile unit.

Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an electrical temperature measuring instrument configured to measure the temperature of a temperature sensitive section electrically; a heat transfer part formed of an elastomer in which the temperature sensitive section is embedded; and a heat insulation part formed of an elastomer covering a single surface of the heat transfer part. The heat transfer part has a thermal conductivity that is greater than a thermal conductivity of the heat insulation part. A mounting section is formed at the heat insulation part, and is to be mounted at a mounting location.

Abstract: A transmission cooling assembly of a helicopter includes: a transmission including a speed change structure that changes the speed of rotation produced by rotational power input from a prime mover and outputs the resulting rotational power and a housing accommodating the speed change structure; a cowl covering at least a part of an outer surface of the housing, with a gap defined between the cowl and the outer surface; and a flow structure that allows external air to flow through the gap.