Abstract: A battery transport support device (10) that comprises: a communication unit (11) that acquires charging batter information from a charging device (20), the charging batter information including identification information for batteries (BAT) being charged by the charging device (20); a specification unit (12) that references a storage unit (14) that stores identification information for users in association with identification information for batteries (BAT) that belong to the users and, on the basis of the charging battery information, specifies the number of batteries (BAT) included in the batteries (BAT) being charged by the charging device (20) that belong to one of the users; and a derivation unit (13) that, on the basis of the number of batteries (BAT) that belong to the one user and the number of batteries (BAT) that can be carried by transport devices, derives a transport device needed to transport the batteries (BAT) that belong to the one user to a transport destination that corresponds to the one u

Abstract: A rental fee calculation device for calculating a rental fee for renting a battery to be rented when the battery is rented to a user via a battery storage apparatus configured to allow the battery to be attached and detached includes: a first fee calculation unit configured to calculate a first fee based on a rental period from when the battery is removed from the battery storage apparatus to when the battery is returned; a second fee calculation unit configured to calculate a second fee based on a used power amount discharged by the battery during the rental period; a rental fee calculation unit configured to calculate the rental fee based on the first fee and the second fee; and an input and output unit functioning as an output unit configured to output rental fee information indicating the calculated rental fee.

Abstract: In a battery rental management device for controlling a battery storage apparatus provided in a predetermined management area where a worker works and configured to allow a battery to be rented to be attached and detached, in response to receiving a rental request for the battery which includes identification information of a desiring user, a storage unit configured to store identification information of an authorized user who has an authority to use the battery is referred to, and whether the desiring user is the authorized user is determined based on the identification information of the desiring user, and the desiring user is permitted to rent the battery based on a determination that the desiring user is the authorized user.

Abstract: Provided are a curing agent for epoxy resins, which is a curing agent capable of curing an epoxy resin at room temperature, and which can form a cured product (cured coating film) having excellent adhesion even to a substrate which is not in an environment completely dried, and an epoxy resin composition obtained using the same. A curing agent for epoxy resins, containing (a1) an aromatic amine, (a2) an aliphatic amine having an aromatic ring or a cycloalkane ring, and (a3) a curing accelerator, and an epoxy resin composition containing the curing agent and an epoxy resin.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to obtain an alternative to a substitute of the mucosa in the middle ear which is engrafted on the surface of the bone in the middle ear, hyperplasia of the granulation tissue and the bone and the development of the fibroblast cells in the middle ear are suppressed, and to obtain a middle ear mucosa-like cell sheet retaining cilia in the surface layer, comprising culturing nasal epithelium cells on a cell culture substrate coated with a polymer whose hydration force changes within a temperature range of 0 to 80° C., wherein the cells are cultured within a temperature range where the hydration force of the polymer is weak, and then changing the temperature to a temperature at which the hydration force is strong to recover the cultured cell sheet.

Abstract: Provided are a curing agent for epoxy resins, which is a curing agent capable of curing an epoxy resin at room temperature, and which can form a cured product (cured coating film) having excellent adhesion even to a substrate which is not in an environment completely dried, and an epoxy resin composition obtained using the same. A curing agent for epoxy resins, containing (a1) an aromatic amine, (a2) an aliphatic amine having an aromatic ring or a cycloalkane ring, and (a3) a curing accelerator, and an epoxy resin composition containing the curing agent and an epoxy resin.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to obtain an alternative to a substitute of the mucosa in the middle ear which is engrafted on the surface of the bone in the middle ear, hyperplasia of the granulation tissue and the bone and the development of the fibroblast cells in the middle ear are suppressed, and to obtain a middle ear mucosa-like cell sheet retaining cilia in the surface layer, comprising culturing nasal epithelium cells on a cell culture substrate coated with a polymer whose hydration force changes within a temperature range of 0 to 80° C., wherein the cells are cultured within a temperature range where the hydration force of the polymer is weak, and then changing the temperature to a temperature at which the hydration force is strong to recover the cultured cell sheet.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to obtain an alternative to a substitute of the mucosa in the middle ear which is engrafted on the surface of the bone in the middle ear, hyperplasia of the granulation tissue and the bone and the development of the fibroblast cell sir the middle ear are suppressed, and to obtain a middle ear mucosa-like cell sheet retaining cilia in the surface layer, comprising culturing nasal epithelium cells on a cell culture substrate coated with a polymer whose hydration force changes within a temperature range of 0 to 80 ° C., wherein the cells are cultured within a temperature range where the hydration force of the polymer is weak, and then changing the temperature to a temperature at which the hydration force is strong to recover the cultured cell sheet.

Abstract: A cleaner cover replacing method includes the steps of detaching a first cleaner cover from a cleaner case; placing an attachment into fitted engagement with claw hooking parts of the cleaner case, placing a second cleaner cover on the cleaner case, and causing a bolt to pass through a bolt hole of the second cleaner cover and to threadedly engage with a nut part of the attachment.

Abstract: A walk-behind working machine includes a first clutch mechanism for connecting or disconnecting drive between an engine and a working member of the working machine. The first clutch mechanism includes a first clutch lever having a first activating member. A second clutch mechanism is configured to connect or disconnect drive between the engine and traveling members of the working machine. The second clutch mechanism includes a second clutch lever having a second activating member. A throttle regulating mechanism has a pivoting member for engagement with one of the first activating member of the first clutch mechanism and the second activating member of the second clutch mechanism so as to undergo pivotal movement to shift a throttle for the engine from a first opened position in which an idling engine speed is produced to a second opened position in which a working-machine-activating engine speed is produced.

Abstract: A cleaner cover replacing method includes the steps of detaching a first cleaner cover from a cleaner case; placing an attachment into fitted engagement with claw hooking parts of the cleaner case, placing a second cleaner cover on the cleaner case, and causing a bolt to pass through a bolt hole of the second cleaner cover and to threadedly engage with a nut part of the attachment.

Abstract: A power-storage-type engine starting system includes a coil spring for storing power to be used in starting the engine. An end of a crankshaft is configured to pass through a cylindrical shaft part and is passed through a one-way clutch attached to inside of an assist boss so that an assist boss and the one-way clutch can be provided at radially outside of the shaft end, whereby the crankshaft is made shorter.

Abstract: An air cleaner has a casing body having an opening that communicates with a carburetor. The casing body includes a fitting part having an inner wall surface and a bearing surface. A sealing frame is inserted into the casing body and engages the fitting part of the casing body. The sealing frame has an outer peripheral part with an outer peripheral surface that is held in contact with the inner wall surface of the fitting part, a rear surface that is held in contact with the bearing surface of the fitting part, a front surface, and a groove formed in the front surface along a circumference thereof. A filter is disposed internally of the sealing frame. A cover covers the filter and the sealing frame.

Abstract: A carburetor automatic control system in an engine includes, a temperature-sensitive operating device for operating a choke valve so that the choke valve is opened with a temperature increase of the engine and a governor for opening and closing a throttle valve to maintain a preset rotational speed of the engine. The governor device includes, a stepping motor opening and closing the throttle valve over a range from an idling opening degree to a fully opening degree, and an electronic control unit driving the stepping motor so that the rotational speed of the engine is maintained the preset speed. A relief mechanism is interposed between the choke valve and the temperature-sensitive operating device, the relief mechanism opening the choke valve in response to an intake vacuum pressure within the intake passage when the engine is in a cold state and the choke valve is in a fully closed state.

Abstract: An engine decompression system that can secure a projecting height of a decompression cam from a base face of a valve operating cam to be relatively large in an engine starting rotational region, and maintain a state in which the projection height is decreased in a complete combustion rotational region of the engine. The decompression system includes a decompression cam shaft provided on a valve operating cam shaft or a rotating member integrally coupled thereto, the decompression cam shaft being capable of rotating between an operating position in which a decompression cam projects above a base face of a valve operating cam to slightly open engine valves during a compression stroke and a release position in which the decompression cam is withdrawn to allow the engine valves to close.

Abstract: A carburetor valve control system for stabilizing engine warm-up operating conditions by automatically controlling the degree of opening of a throttle valve so as to be larger than a normal degree of opening for idling, without carrying out a special operation of appropriately strengthening the spring force of a governor spring. The carburetor throttle valve control system includes a throttle lever and a governor system coupled to the throttle lever. A choke return spring is connected to a choke lever, the choke return spring urging the choke lever to a choke valve closing side. An automatic choke system is disposed so as to face the choke lever. A throttle valve closure restricting member is provided between the throttle lever and the choke lever. During engine warming-up, when the spring force of a governor spring is adjusted to zero or a minimum, the choke lever restricts closing of the throttle valve via the throttle lever by means of the spring force of the choke return spring.

Abstract: A carburetor automatic control system in an engine includes, a temperature-sensitive operating device for operating a choke valve so that the choke valve is opened with a temperature increase of the engine and a governor for opening and closing a throttle valve to maintain a preset rotational speed of the engine. The governor device includes, a stepping motor opening and closing the throttle valve over a range from an idling opening degree to a fully opening degree, and an electronic control unit driving the stepping motor so that the rotational speed of the engine is maintained the preset speed. A relief mechanism is interposed between the choke valve and the temperature-sensitive operating device, the relief mechanism opening the choke valve in response to an intake vacuum pressure within the intake passage when the engine is in a cold state and the choke valve is in a fully closed state.

Abstract: In a fuel tank system, a strainer chamber with a suction bore opened into its upper surface is provided in a collecting recess for collecting a residual fuel containing impure foreign substances such as dust and water, the collecting recess being provided in a bottom wall of a fuel tank. A fuel discharge pipe is connected to the strainer chamber. Fuel flow passages are provided outside the strainer chamber. Baffle plates are provided in front and in the rear of and outside the strainer chamber to guide the fuel flowing into the collecting recess during tilting of the fuel tank into the fuel flow passages. Thus, the impure foreign substances are prevented from entering the strainer chamber.

Abstract: An automatic choke system includes: a wax-type temperature sensing section; and an output section which opens a choke valve of a carburetor in response to heat receiving operation of the temperature sensing section. Temperature sensing section includes: a bottomed cylindrical housing attached to an engine with its bottom portion directed to a high-temperature portion of the engine; a bottomed movable cylinder; a stationary piston slidably supported by the movable cylinder and having one end protruding out of the movable cylinder; and a wax contained in the movable cylinder in a sealed manner, and causing the movable cylinder and the stationary piston to move relative to each other in an axial direction. The movable cylinder is slidably housed in the housing in a state in which an outer end of the stationary piston abuts against an inner surface of the bottom portion of the housing. The output section is connected to the movable cylinder.

Abstract: A device for controlling a choke valve of a carburetor for an engine includes: a choke closed state hold device for holding, in a closing position, a choke lever urged by a spring in a direction for opening the choke valve, when the choke lever is turned to the closing position, the choke closed state hold device releasing the choke lever from the held state by a throttle operation thereafter performed; a control lever which turns between a low-temperature position and a high-temperature position, and which at its low-temperature position limits the position of the choke lever released from the choke closed state hold device to an intermediate position and at its high-temperature position limits the position of the choke lever to an opening position; a first control spring which urges the control lever toward the low-temperature position; and a second control spring which is made of a shape memory alloy, and which turns the control lever to the high-temperature position when the engine temperature reaches a p