Abstract: A vehicle control system (11) has a human-machine interface (31). The human-machine interface (31) performs display control of entertainment content (CT) on the basis of a monitoring result of a passenger (PA).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heating device, a motor, and circuitry. The heating device includes a belt, a heater, belt holders, a slide aid, lubricant, and a temperature sensor. The heater heats the belt. The belt holders hold both ends of the belt in a longitudinal direction of the belt. The inner circumferential surface of the belt slides on the slide aid. The lubricant is adhered to the belt. The temperature sensor detects a temperature of the belt. The motor rotates the belt in a forward direction to convey a recording medium and a reverse direction opposite to the forward direction. The circuitry is configured to control the motor to rotate the belt in the reverse direction in response to a detection of the temperature equal to or higher than 50° C. by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: To inhibit toner bottle in which toner is remaining from being replaceable, image forming apparatus includes: bottle cover that can open/close insertion opening of toner bottle housing; locking mechanism to lock closed bottle cover; actuating mechanism including unlocking member to unlock locked bottle cover and open bottle cover, and actuator to actuate unlocking member; front cover situated in openable/closable manner in front of bottle cover to inhibit bottle cover from becoming open while front cover is closed; fault sensing unit to perform first fault sensing process in which actuator is sensed as having fault when failing to actuate unlocking member in spite of actuator being driven while image forming unit is non-operating; and condition sensing unit to sense presence of possibility that front cover is opened. Fault sensing unit is excluded from performing first fault sensing process while condition sensing unit is sensing the possibility as being present.

Abstract: An arc welded joint and an arc welding method. The arc welded joint has a weld formed by arc welding of an overlap of at least two steel sheets. The weld has a specified flank angle ?. In a region extending 2.0 mm from a bead toe of the weld in a weld metal direction and also extending 2.0 mm from the bead toe in a base material direction, a slag-covered area ratio is 50% or less.

Abstract: A resistance spot welded member and a resistance spot welding method. The resistance spot welded member includes a resistance spot weld formed by resistance-spot-welding a plurality of steel sheets including at least one high strength coated steel sheet. The high strength coated steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The at least one high strength coated steel sheet includes a coated layer, a base metal, and an Fe-based electroplated base layer interposed between the coated layer and the base metal. The amount of solute Si and the amount of solute Mn in a region on a steel sheet surface in the vicinity of the edge of the corona of the resistance spot weld are 35% or less of the amount of solute Si and 35% or less of the amount of solute Mn, respectively, at a position ¼ of the sheet thickness.

Abstract: A gas-shielded arc welding method includes welding a steel plate having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more while feeding a consumable electrode via a welding torch and flowing a shielding gas. The consumable electrode includes, in mass %, C: 0 to 0.20%, Si: 0 to 0.50%, Mn: 0 to 0.50%, Cr: 1.00% to 9.00%, S: 0.0020% to 0.0600%, and Ni: 0 to 0.50%. The shielding gas includes, in vol. %, at least one of CO2 and O2: 1% to 15% in total, with the remainder being Ar and unavoidable impurities. Welding is performed under the condition satisfying the relationship of 1?{?0.05×[CO2+O2]}+[Cr]?8.3, and [Cr] represents the content of Cr in the consumable electrode, and [CO2+O2] represents a total content of at least one of CO2 and O2 in the shielding gas.

Abstract: A steel welded member having a high LME resistance of a spot weld, i.e., a steel welded member comprised of a plurality of Zn-based plated steel materials, each comprised of a steel material and a Zn-based plating layer on its surface, joined by at least one spot weld, in which at least one of the Zn-based plated steel materials has a 780 MPa or more tensile strength, that steel material has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in a region of 10 to 300 ?m from an end of a pressure weld of the spot weld, a difference of a Zn penetration depth of Zn from a Zn-based plating layer penetrating a steel material minus a depth of an internal oxidation layer formed at the steel material is within 0.1 to 10.0 ?m in range.

Abstract: A heating device includes a first rotator, a second rotator, a heater, a nip formation pad, a reflector, and a shield. The second rotator faces the first rotator. The heater heats the first rotator. The nip formation pad is inside a loop of the first rotator to form a nip between the first rotator and the second rotator. The nip formation pad has a nip side face facing an inner circumferential surface of the first rotator. The reflector reflects radiant heat radiated from the heater toward the inner circumferential surface of the first rotator. The reflector contacts the nip side face of the nip formation pad. The shield contacts the reflector and shields the first rotator from the radiant heat radiated from the heater.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a heater, a pressure rotator, a nip formation pad, and a slide aid sheet. The fixing rotator is rotatable in a rotation direction. The heater heats the fixing rotator. The pressure rotator contacts an outer circumferential face of the fixing rotator. The nip formation pad is inside a loop of the fixing rotator to form a nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. The slide aid sheet is on the nip formation pad and faces the fixing rotator. The slide aid sheet includes a carbon fiber extending in a width direction orthogonal to a rotation direction of the fixing rotator.

Abstract: A resistance spot welded joint is formed by resistance-spot-welding two or more steel sheets including at least one high strength steel sheet. The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.6%, Si: 0.1 to 2.0%, Mn: 1.5 to 4.0%, and P: 0.10% or less, with the balance being Fe and incidental impurities. The hardness of a softest nugget region is 90% or less of the hardness of the heat-affected zone. The softest nugget region has a microstructure including tempered martensite. The average number density of carbide particles having a diameter of 100 nm or more in the softest nugget region is 10 or more per 5 ?m2 in a cross section of the steel sheets.

Abstract: Provided is a friction stir spot welded joint having high joint strength even in the case where a high strength steel sheet, particularly a steel sheet with a tensile strength (TS) of 980 MPa or more, is used as a material to be welded. An annular groove is formed on an upper surface of an upper sheet out of overlapping steel sheets, and a shape, microstructure, and hardness of a welded portion are appropriately controlled simultaneously.

Abstract: A rim portion of a vehicle wheel has an outer flange portion. In a region of the outer flange portion, a space portion between spoke portions is disposed on a radial-direction inner side, a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface are provided. The first inclined surface is provided on an axial-direction outer side of an outer flange outer circumferential portion. The second inclined surface is on an axial-direction outer side of an outer flange inner circumferential portion. The first inclined surface is formed to incline from the axial-direction outer side toward an axial-direction inner side as the first inclined surface extends from a radial-direction outer side end toward the radial-direction inner side. The second inclined surface is a surface formed to incline from the axial-direction inner side toward the axial-direction outer side as the second inclined surface extends from the radial-direction outer side toward the radial-direction inner side.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body, a toner container that is removably set in the body and contains toner, a toner supplier to supply the toner from the toner container to the body, a memory that stores container information that is information of the toner container, and circuitry. The circuitry is to determine, after the toner container is set in the body, based on the container information acquired from the memory, whether the toner container set in the body is same as a toner container set in the body in a past and the container information satisfies a predetermined condition, and to drive the toner supplier in a case where the toner container set in the body is determined to be same as the toner container set in the body in the past and the container information satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A car panel structure, which can prevent a binder in a recess on an inner panel from overflowing during a processing process after the inner panel and an outer panel are bonded to each other, is provided. The car panel structure includes the outer panel forming an exterior of the car panel structure; and the inner panel fixed on an interior of the outer panel through the binder, wherein the inner panel has the recess recessed along a direction away from the outer panel, the recess has a binder coating portion, and the binder coating portion is vertically offset relative to a bottom surface of the recess.

Abstract: A rotor is placed on one axial side relative to a passage hole forming portion at an inside of a housing. A differential pressure device is placed on the one axial side relative to the rotor and has a pressure chamber. The housing has: a one-side space that is placed on the one axial side relative to the rotor; and at least one other-side space that is placed on another axial side, which is opposite to the one axial side, relative to the passage hole forming portion. The differential pressure device generates an urging force that urges the rotor against the passage hole forming portion by a differential pressure between a pressure in the pressure chamber and a pressure in the one-side space in a case where a pressure in the at least one other-side space is higher than the pressure in the one-side space.

Abstract: High strength plated steel sheet excellent in LME resistance, that is, plated steel sheet comprising steel sheet and a plating layer containing Zn on the same, in which the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more, the steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.05 to 0.40%, Si: 0.2 to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 5.0%, sol. Al: 0.4 to 1.50%, etc. and having a balance of Fe and impurities, and, in any vertical cross section of the steel sheet, ferrite phases with a circle equivalent diameter of 1 ?m or less are contained in a region from a surface layer down to a depth of 2 ?m in a number density of 2 to 30/?m2 and the ferrite phases include internal oxides with a circle equivalent diameter of 2 to 100 nm in a number density of 3/?m2 or more.

Abstract: A power control unit mounting structure mounted on a vehicle includes an engine in an engine room at a front of the vehicle, an intake manifold disposed above the engine, a power control unit that is disposed above the engine, coupled to a cable, and controls power of a drive motor, and a toeboard cross member disposed on a toeboard. The engine and the toeboard cross member partly overlap in a projected plane along a fore-and-aft direction to provide a space behind the control unit in a front view of the vehicle. The intake manifold and the control unit are disposed within a contour of the engine in a plan view of the vehicle. The intake manifold is disposed ahead of the control unit, and portions of intake pipes of the intake manifold on both sides extend rearward and are partly opposed to both side surfaces of the control unit.

Abstract: If reception quality of a broadcast signal of a first frequency received by a tuner satisfies setting conditions, the frequency received by the tuner is changed from the first frequency to a second frequency. It is evaluated whether or not the amount of offset between a reference frequency and the frequency of the signal, which is generated by converting the broadcast signal of the second frequency received by the tuner into an intermediate frequency is within a predetermined range. If the offset between the reference frequency and the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal is within the predetermined range, the data included in the broadcast signal of the first frequency is acquired by a demodulating the broadcast signal of the first frequency. It is evaluated whether or not the broadcast signal of the first frequency is a broadcast signal of a broadcasting station based on the acquired data.

Abstract: An electro-optical device is provided and includes a plurality of first signal lines extending in a first direction on a substrate; a plurality of second signal lines extending in a second direction on the substrate, the second direction intersecting the first direction; a pixel area in which a plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed; an outer peripheral edge of the pixel area having a curved portion or a bent portion; and a first circuit block, a second circuit block, and a third circuit block arranged along the outer peripheral edge, wherein the second circuit block is arranged between the first circuit block and the first circuit block, and a first gap between the first circuit bock and the second circuit block is different from a second gap between the second circuit block and the third circuit block.

Abstract: An automotive member and a resistance spot welding method. The automotive member includes a resistance spot weld formed by resistance-spot-welding a plurality of steel sheets including at least one high strength steel sheet. The high strength steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The microstructure in the vicinity of the edge of the nugget of the resistance spot weld is a composite microstructure containing ferrite at a volume fraction of 1 to 30%, martensite at a volume fraction of 1 to 50%, and tempered martensite at a volume fraction of 20% or more. The average number density of Nb-based precipitate grains having a grain diameter less than 0.09 ?m and Ti-based precipitate grains having a grain diameter less than 0.09 ?m is 10 or more grains per 100 ?m2 in a sheet cross section.