Abstract: According to a certain viewpoint of the present invention, there is provided a blast furnace operation method comprising blowing a high-concentration hydrogen-containing gas containing 80 mol % or more of hydrogen gas from a tuyere under: a condition in which a blowing temperature of the high-concentration hydrogen-containing gas is room temperature or higher and 300° C. or lower and a gas volume of the hydrogen gas in the high-concentration hydrogen-containing gas is 200 Nm3/t or more and 500 Nm3/t or less; a condition in which the blowing temperature of the high-concentration hydrogen-containing gas is higher than 300° C. and 600° C. or lower and the gas volume of the hydrogen gas in the high-concentration hydrogen-containing gas is 145 Nm3/t or more; a condition in which the blowing temperature of the high-concentration hydrogen-containing gas is higher than 600° C. and 900° C. or lower and the gas volume of the high-concentration hydrogen-containing gas is 125 Nm3/t or more, or the like.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a recording material or a recording sheet using, as a color-developing agent, a non-phenol-based compound good in color developing performance and the like. A compound represented by the following formula (I) is used as the color-developing agent: (wherein X represents CH2 or the like; R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like; n1 and n3 each independently represent any integer of 1 to 5; two groups represented by R3 adjacent to each other on a benzene ring optionally bond to each other to form an optionally substituted 6-membered ring; and n2 represents any integer of 1 to 4).

Abstract: A vehicle component display device including: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: acquire a predetermined reference shape from a captured image of a vehicle that is captured by an imaging section; read three-dimensional data of component images corresponding to the reference shape, and display the component images at a display in a state in which the component images are superimposed on the vehicle, the display being visible to a user; display a component configuration diagram at the display together with the component images; and in a case in which a component is selected in the component configuration diagram, emphasize display of the component in the component images displayed at the display.

Abstract: The resin composition for plating of the present invention includes: a graft copolymer (A) in which a monomer component (a) including specific amounts of an aromatic vinyl compound (a1), a vinyl cyanide compound (a2), and another vinyl compound (a3) is graft-polymerized on a rubbery polymer; and a polycarbonate resin (P), wherein an amount of resin (P) is 40 to 70% by mass, based on a total mass of the resin composition, a rubber content (X) in copolymer (A) is more than 40% by mass, based on a total mass of copolymer (A), a graft ratio (Y) of copolymer (A) satisfies formula (1): 793e?0.041X?Y?515e?0.041X (1), and a rubber content (Z) in the resin composition is 10 to 18% by mass, based on a total mass of the resin composition.

Abstract: Provided is a method for determining a micro short circuit of a lithium ion secondary battery which is capable of determining the presence or absence of a micro short circuit of the lithium ion secondary battery in a short time. A relaxation process after the interruption of a discharging current or a charging current is analyzed and a voltage fluctuation component due to micro short circuit is separated and used in the determination.

Abstract: To provide an electrode for a solid-state battery, capable of improving uniformity of electrode materials and suppressing decomposition of a solid electrolyte or an electrode active material by a binder or a solvent. An electrode for a solid-state battery including a solid electrolyte including sulfide and/or oxide, an electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive auxiliary agent, at least one of the solid electrolyte and the electrode active material having a surface being modified with a surface modifying substance, wherein the surface modifying substance is at least one selected from the group consisting of carboxylate, thiocarboxylate, carboxylic acid, thiocarboxylic acid, phosphate ester, thiophosphate ester, ketone, nitrile, alcohol, thiol, and ether.

Abstract: An air suspension apparatus includes a compressor configured to compress air, a tank configured to store the air, a tank-side suction conduit configured to supply the compressed air in this tank to an intake side of the compressor, a tank conduit connecting a discharge side of the compressor and the tank, an air suspension connected to the discharge side of the compressor via an air drier, an intake electromagnetic valve provided in the tank-side suction conduit, a return electromagnetic valve provided in the tank conduit, and a discharge conduit provided so as to branch off from between the discharge side of the compressor and the air drier and configured to be connected to an atmosphere by opening a discharge electromagnetic valve.

Abstract: The present invention includes a memory and a processor configured to store, in a storage, a first digital twin in which at least one model defining at least one function of an entity at a given time, and at least one piece of second data that includes, as a constituent element, first data for realizing the function of the entity due to being input to the model are included, create at least one second digital twin by performing predetermined first computation using, as a computation target, at least one first digital twin stored in the storage, and execute computation for arranging the second digital twin in a sandbox for which a predetermined time axis has been set, and realizing a function of an entity indicated by the second digital twin in the sandbox in accordance with the time axis.

Abstract: A recording material and a recording sheet having better color-developing performance, storage stability, etc. A recording material which contains (A) at least one color former, (B) at least one compound selected from the group including compounds represented by the following formula (I), and (C) at least one compound selected from the group including compounds represented by the following formula (II) (wherein R1 to R3 each represent a halogen atom, a nitro group, a C1 to C6 alkyl group, a C1 to C6 alkoxy group, a C2 to C6 alkenyl group or a C1 to C6 haloalkyl group, n1 and n3 each independently represent any integer of 0 to 5, n2 represents any integer of 0 to 4, and X represents —SO2—O— or —O—SO2—).

Abstract: Generally, an information processing device according to one embodiment includes storage, a receiver, a detector, an extractor, and a position specifier. The storage stores therein, imaging positional information indicating, identification information on a landmark set, and registration landmark information, in association with one another. The receiver receives a captured image for position specification from an onboard device. The extractor extracts imaging landmark information serving as information on a detected landmark from the captured image for position specification. The position specifier specifies the position indicated by the imaging positional information associated with the identification information on the landmark set including the registration landmark information similar to the imaging landmark information as the position of a vehicle at time when the captured image for position specification is taken.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium forms an unfinished product including a magnetic recording layer and a protection layer that are successively formed on a substrate, and forms a lubricant layer on the protection layer of the unfinished product. The lubricant layer is formed by coating a first organic fluorine compound on the protection layer of the unfinished product, and supplying a gas, including a second organic fluorine compound, onto the protection layer of the unfinished product, and decomposing the second organic fluorine compound by Townsend discharge and ultraviolet ray irradiation. The protection layer includes carbon, and the first organic fluorine compound includes a functional group at a terminal thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a compressor capable of achieving a reduction in overall size and an improvement in vehicle mountability by using a linear motor. The compressor 1 comprises a linear motor 2 having a reciprocating mover 6, a compression unit 9 having a piston 11 connected to the mover 6 at one end side of the linear motor 2 so as to reciprocate and a cylinder 10 slidably accommodating the piston 11 to form a compression chamber 10B, and an air dryer 17 connected to a cylinder head 14 of the compression chamber 10B of the compression unit 9 and filled therein with a desiccant 17C. The air dryer 17 is disposed along the axis in the movement direction of the mover 6 the piston 11.

Abstract: A base station used in a traffic communication system includes a communicator configured to receive, via wireless communication, information transmitted from a vehicle traveling on a road, and a controller configured to identify, based on the information received by the communicator, a traveling behavior including a travel route of the vehicle on the road. The controller is configured to execute first processing for performing statistical learning or machine learning on a plurality of the traveling behaviors respectively identified for a plurality of the vehicles traveling on the road, and second processing for determining, based on a result of the first processing, whether a traffic obstacle is present on the road and a position of the traffic obstacle on the road.

Abstract: A blast furnace operation method according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a process of acquiring a correlation between a carbon consumption in reducing gas and a reduction Input?C in specific carbon consumption caused by blowing the reducing gas into the blast furnace per molar ratio C/H of carbon atoms to hydrogen atoms in the reducing gas; a process of determining a carbon consumption in the reducing gas where the reduction Input?C in specific carbon consumption is a predetermined target value or higher on the basis of the correlation acquired per C/H; and a process of adjusting the amount of the reducing gas blown into the blast furnace on the basis of the determined carbon consumption in the reducing gas and the carbon proportion in the reducing gas.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoplastic resin composition in which occurrence of an absorption phenomenon in a coating step can be suppressed and which is excellent in terms of impact resistance, heat resistance, and fluidity during a molding step; a coated article; and a molded resin article obtained by molding the thermoplastic resin composition. The thermoplastic resin composition contains: 35 to 75 parts by mass of an aromatic polycarbonate resin (A); 15 to 35 parts by mass of a rubber-containing graft copolymer (B) obtained by copolymerizing a monomer mixture comprising an aromatic vinyl compound and a vinyl cyanide compound in the presence of a rubbery polymer; and 10 to 50 parts by mass of a rigid copolymer mixture (C) containing a rigid copolymer (C-I) and a rigid copolymer (C-II), in which in the rigid copolymer mixture (C), an amount of the rigid copolymer (C-II) is 20% to 80% by mass in the mixture.

Abstract: Provided is a method for determining a battery state of a lithium ion secondary battery that allows for understand a deterioration state of the battery without performing full charging of the battery. To estimate an entire image of a charge-discharge curve on the basis of a fragmentary charge-discharge curve by analyzing a relaxation process after the electric current interruption to grasp the resistance of a battery and taking into consideration a resulting resistance value.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a chrome-plated part having a corrosion resistance in normal and specific circumstances and not requiring additional treatments after chrome plating, and to provide a manufacturing method of such a chrome-plated part. The chrome-plated part 1 includes: a substrate 2; a bright nickel plating layer 5b formed over the substrate 2; a noble potential nickel plating layer 5a formed on the bright nickel plating layer 5b. An electric potential difference between the bright nickel plating layer 5b and the noble potential nickel plating layer 5a is within a range from 40 mV to 150 mV. The chrome-plated part 1 further includes: a trivalent chrome plating layer 6 formed on the noble potential nickel plating layer 5a and having at least any one of a microporous structure and a microcrack structure.

Abstract: An air suspension apparatus includes a compressor configured to compress air, a tank configured to store the air, a tank-side suction conduit configured to supply the compressed air in this tank to an intake side of the compressor, a tank conduit connecting a discharge side of the compressor and the tank, an air suspension connected to the discharge side of the compressor via an air drier, an intake electromagnetic valve provided in the tank-side suction conduit, a return electromagnetic valve provided in the tank conduit, and a discharge conduit provided so as to branch off from between the discharge side of the compressor and the air drier and configured to be connected to an atmosphere by opening a discharge electromagnetic valve.

Abstract: A variable focal length lens device includes: a lens system whose refractive index changes in accordance with a drive signal to be inputted; an objective lens disposed on the same optical axis as the lens system; an image detector configured to detect an image of a measurement target through the lens system and the objective lens: a resonance-lock controller configured to tune the drive signal to a resonance frequency of the lens system; and a resonance-lock delay controller configured to divide a change in a frequency of the drive signal by a change amount set by the resonance-lock controller to step-by-step changes for n times by a preset reference value to delay the change in the frequency of the drive signal.